About Basic Black Beans

Basic Black Beans

Rinse a bag of dried Black Beans, also called Turtle Beans, I think they're ususlly about one pound bags.

Toss the rinsed beans into the crock pot along with a chopped whole onion and 2 or 3 cloves of copped garlic. Cover with water. Cook on high for 1 to 2 hours.

Check water, keep it just barely above the top of the beans, not too much as you dont' want to end up with too much "sauce".

Add about 1/4 cup of ground cumin and 1 T cocoa. Continue cooking for 1 hour or so more. It depends on how fresh your beans are.

When beans are soft, add about 2 T cup of chili powder, 2 t cumin seed, 1 t hot pepper flakes and salt to taste. About 2 tsp salt might taste right, it depends in part on how much salt is in your chili powder.

You may want to add more cumin at this point, depending in part on the quality of your ground cumin.

Continue cooking on low for at least 1/2 hour more.

We use these beans as base of burritos and dips. They freeze very well.