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Dinner · 35 min · 4 bowls

Spiced pinto beans in tomato

After Rajma

Kidney beans are traditional; pinto is the can you have. Cumin bloomed in fat.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 35 min

easy

Why tonight. Kidney beans are traditional; pinto is the can you have. Cumin bloomed in fat.

What it needs

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  • pinto beans
  • tomato
  • cumin
  • onion
  • garlic

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: ginger.

Method

  1. Onion browned properly in oil — brown, not translucent — then garlic and cumin for thirty seconds.
  2. Tomato in and cooked until it darkens and the oil separates at the edges. This step is the recipe.
  3. Beans in with their liquid, simmered twenty minutes, a third of them crushed to thicken it.
  4. Finish with a pat of butter and more cumin toasted dry and crumbled over. Yogurt and rice at the table.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

pinto beans
Softer and earthier than black beans, and they break down willingly, which makes them the right bean when you want the pot to thicken itself.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
cumin
Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
onion
The base under most of this library.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.

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