Prepared Black Turtle Beans
Prep Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 3 hrs 10 mins
Yield: 4quarts
About This Recipe
“Don’t pay up to $1 per can for black beans when you can make them yourself for pennies! These tasty beans work great in Santa Fe style recipes or as a substitute for refried beans. Tested at high altitude.”
Ingredients
1 1/2 lbsdry black beans
water
1envelopeLipton Onion Soup Mix
1tablespoononion powder
2teaspoonsgarlic powder
2teaspoonssalt( or to taste)
Directions
The night before: wash beans and remove any debris.
Place in large mixing bowl and add water to cover plus 4 inches.
To cook: pour off water from beans and place in 6-quart heavy kettle or dutch oven.
Add enough water to cover, plus 2 inches.
Cover and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat but keep boiling at steady rate.
Boil beans for about 2 1/2 hours or until just tender.
Stir occasionally.
Add water as needed.
(Ideally, at the end of the cooking time, there will be just enough water to cover the beans.) Remove from heat.
Add remaining ingredients and stir well.
Allow to cool.
Scoop 2 cups of mixture into each freezer bag.
Try to distribute an equal amount of liquid into each bag.
Squeeze out excess air and seal.
Freeze.
To use: Remove bag from freezer and allow to thaw in refrigerator for 24 hours, OR thaw bag in microwave according to manufacturer’s directions, OR run warm water over bag to release contents from bag, then place frozen bean mixture in saucepan and heat over low flame until hot.
Each bag yields 4 servings.
Reviews
“I’m back to finish my review.After freezing the black beans, I pulled them out to use in Recipe #261272.They held their shape nicely after being in the freezer and then back into a hot pot and in the oven.So now, after running the full gambit, your recipe receives 5 Stars.I’ll be cooking up my own black beans from now on.Thank you!! ….Oct9, 2010- I’m going to start out with 4 stars at first because these were SO easy to make!I add everything into the pan at the same time as I started cooking the beans.Made for Healthy choice ABC”
“This is a great method for cooking dried black beans. I used the onion soup mix and 1 tsp garlic powder and omitted the onion powder and salt. The biggest change I made was to cook the beans on high all day in my crockpot. I’ll be making these again and will try them plain too. Thanks, Elizabeth!”