Cuban Black Beans and Rice

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This is simply a classical and ubiquitous broadside crockery successful Cuba and different Latin American countries. In cook David Guas's family, determination was ever a vessel of diced earthy bulb connected the array to sprinkle implicit the tender beans arsenic a crunchy counterpoint.

Ingredients

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Servings: 8-10

For the beans

1 lb dried achromatic beans, picked implicit to region immoderate overseas matter
10 cups water
4-to-6-ounce ham bony oregon tiny smoked ham hock
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 cupful chopped saccharine onion, positive 3/4 cupful chopped saccharine onion, for garnish
1 tablespoonful dried oregano

For the rice

4 cups water
2 cups parboiled rice

From David Guas, chef-owner of Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery successful Arlington.

Tested by Tim Carman.

Published November 17, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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