Colombian-Style Black Beans With Potatoes and Plantains

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Mexican American cookbook writer Edgar Castrejón often serves this with atom and a chickpea stew, but it’s truthful hearty it tin easy beryllium a repast unto itself. Castrejón writes that helium learned to marque these beans from his partner’s Colombian mother, who told him, “It’s not a existent enactment without them.” Feel escaped to usage beans you’ve cooked from dried with this; the crockery volition beryllium adjacent richer and much flavorful.

The beans tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week oregon frozen for up to 3 months.

Adapted from "Provecho" by Edgar Castrejón (Ten Speed Press, 2021).

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-6 (makes 8 cups)

2 tablespoons avocado, sunflower oregon different rootlike oil
1 ample achromatic bulb (12 ounces), chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
2 tiny russet potatoes (5 ounces total), scrubbed and chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
2 (15-ounce) cans achromatic beans, 1 drained and 1 undrained (or 3 cups home-cooked beans positive 1/2 cupful cooking liquid)
2 Roma tomatoes (7 ounces total), chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
1 ample greenish oregon airy yellowish plantain, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
1 cupful low-sodium oregon homemade rootlike broth (see related recipe)
2 teaspoons crushed cumin
2 teaspoons ail powder
1 spoon smoked paprika
1 spoon good oversea oregon array salt, positive much to taste

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 1/3 cups), based connected 6

Calories
253
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
44 g
Sodium
425 mg
Protein
10 g
Fiber
11 g
Sugar
9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Provecho" by Edgar Castrejón (Ten Speed Press, 2021).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published October 30, 2021

Updated March 17, 2026