Frijoles Negros

Another recipe I can claim as my own 🙂 Woohoo Alyssa!! I feel like a native Cubana 🙂  The thing about these black beans is the cheese undertone…so good!!  If you are highly lactose intolerant, I would recommend using Daiya cheese, it would melt nicely!

Frijoles Negros

– 3 can black beans, drained and rinsed

– 2 cans Rotel Tomatoes

– 1 round of Mozzarella Cheese (cubed)

– 1 onion, chopped

– 4 cloves of garlic, chopped

– 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp pepper

Method:  Saute onion and garlic in a tsp of olive oil.  Once translucent, add to your crock pot.  Put your beans, cheese, tomatoes, salt and pepper into the pot.  Turn heat to low and allow to simmer for several hours, stirring every so often.  Once the cheese has all melted, serve over saffron rice and enjoy!

I make saffron rice using the yellow packets in the Ethnic aisle at the grocery store.  The ingredients are non-gluten, but it doesn’t say GF on it.  If you are hyper sensitive, I would just use regular rice.

So delicious!!

How would you use black beans to make them into another Ethnic Food?? Let’s say…Italian??  Have fun with this one!