Recipe
Red Beans Chef Style
Thick red beans with smoked pork hocks, chorizo, bacon, malanga and pumpkin, in our chef's style. Perfect with white rice.
- Preparation10 min
- Cooking50 min
- Total time1 h
- Servings4 servings
- DifficultyEasy
Beans are a very popular dish in Cuba: in many homes they are cooked two or three times a week. This is our chef's version of red beans, with smoked pork hocks, chorizo and bacon, and with the two root vegetables that almost no one forgives missing in this recipe: malanga and pumpkin.
Ingredients
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Method
- Soak the beans for about 4 hours.
- Soften them with the hocks in the pressure cooker for 25 minutes, or until the bean opens. Reserve the broth.
- Remove the hocks and debone them.
- In a pot, heat the oil and fry the bacon cut into cubes.
- Add the chorizo, also cut. When both release their fat, add the onion.
- When the onion is translucent, add the pepper and let it cook for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Add the bay leaves, the deboned hocks and the beans.
- Add more or less bean broth, depending on the thickness you want. Cook everything covered for 20 minutes.
- Add the malanga and pumpkin, washed and cut into cubes, and let them cook.
- Finish by adding the bunch of culantro to release its aroma.
- Before serving, remove the culantro and the bay leaves. Serve with white rice.
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