New Mexico Pinto Beans Meal Starter
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs Pinto Beans
- 1 lb ground beef
- 3 cloves garlic - crushed
- 1 med chopped onion
- 2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 2 tsp oregano
- 2 tsp thyme
- 2 tsp cumin
Instructions
- Clean, sort and soak pinto beans. To quickly hydrate beans, you may cover sorted and washed beans with boiling water in a saucepan. Boil 2 minutes, remove from heat, soak 1 hour and drain. Cover beans soaked by either method with fresh water and boil 30 minutes.
- Cook ground beef just until it is no longer pink.
- Mix beans and beef together along with spices
- Divide mixture between jars (this makes 8 pint and a half jars)
- Add hot water, beef broth, vegetable broth or a thin tomato sauce, leaving 1 inch headspace. Debubble and check headspace again.
- Wipe rims, add lids and rings. Pressure can at the PSI for the size jars you choose.
- https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can/canning-vegetables-and-vegetable-products/beans-or-peas-shelled-dried-all-varieties/
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