Instant Ramen With Mexican-Style Beans

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By Aaron Hutcherson

This upgrade to instant ramen is inspired by Mexican stewed beans and requires lone a fistful of ingredients. It’s “an fantabulous canvas for a wide scope of garnishes, allowing you to instrumentality it successful galore directions based connected immoderate you person connected hand,” writes Peter J. Kim successful his “Instant Ramen Kitchen” cookbook. (For those acrophobic astir the magnitude of sodium successful instant ramen, enactment that it tin alteration by marque and adjacent flavor, truthful look for ones that acceptable your dietary needs.)

Adapted from “Instant Ramen Kitchen” by Peter J. Kim (Chronicle Books, 2025).

Ingredients

1 tablespoonful neutral oil, specified arsenic canola oregon avocado
1/4 cupful diced yellowish onion
1 ail clove, thinly sliced
2 cups water
3/4 cupful canned pinto oregon achromatic beans, drained and rinsed (about 1 fractional of 1 15-ounce can)
1/4 spoon dried oregano
One (3- to 3 1/2-ounce) bundle instant ramen noodles, preferably soy- oregon miso-flavored
Chopped caller cilantro, sliced radish, cotija cheese, caller oregon pickled jalapeño slices, diced tomato, and lime wedges, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
751
Fat
32 g
Saturated Fat
9 g
Carbohydrates
97 g
Sodium
712 mg
Cholesterol
0 mg
Protein
20 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
1 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 “Instant Ramen Kitchen” by Peter J. Kim (Chronicle Books, 2025).

Tested by Aaron Hutcherson.

Published March 10, 2026