What can I do with black beans?

I've done blackbean brownies- sooo good! Take a can of blackbeans, put them in a blender with just enough water to cover them(not too much- I made that mistake once, they were kinda gooey!), blend, and mix with a brownie box mix. Higher fiber, less fat. And you can't tell! So delish

Last week I just threw some stuff together, and I took shredded chicken, salsa, and blackbeans and used it in carb balance tortilla shells with some sour cream. oooooh my god. I was proud of myself, haha!

I use them to make chicken chili
1 pound chicken, boiled then shredded
1 small can tomato sauce
1 can black beans rinsed
1 can hot rotel
1 can corn-drained
1 packet of taco seasoning
Just mix everything together and simmer for about an hour. My family loves it. Makes 4 servings and only 380 calories a serving.

I like to chop up onion, saute them then add black beans and corn. LOVE it. Make sure to rinse anything thats been canned. Gets rid of the extra salt

This recipe is from the cookbook- The Gluten-Free Vegetarian Kitchen. Have made it a number of times and always get rave reviews, even from my meat eating family.

Caribbean-Style Sweet Potatoes and Black Beans

3 med Sweet potatoes ( about 6oz each) peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
3/4 c orange juice
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon jerk seasoning
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 (15 oz ) can black beans rinsed and drained
salt and pepper to taste
3 cups cooked brown rice

In a large saucepan, bring the potatoes and enough salted water to cover to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer until tender but not falling apart, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain and set aside.

In the same saucepan, whisk together the orange juice, corn starch, jerk seasoning, cinnamon and cumin. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil until thickened, whisking constantly about 1 minuter. Stir in the sweet potatoes, beans, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring, until heated through, about 3 minutes. Serve warm over the rice.

Sometimes I skip the rice and just eat it as a stew.

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yum, i put them in everything,, salads, soups, stir frys,, rice .

Mark Bittman's Black Bean Burgers - see recipe here (http://www.food.com/recipe/the-simplest-bean-burgers-mark-bittman-335266). They are so yummy!

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One thing used often with black beans for us is to mix a few different ingredients.
You take 2 zucchini,
2 yellow squash,
2 Minced garlic cloves,
about one quarter to a half of an onion, White or yellow,
a can of rotel (or any variety of red peppers and green chiles)
and 3 large cans of black beans,
we usually add chicken but is easily eaten without. I recently started a Pesketarian Diet and I don't eat any meat but fish so I ate it without the chicken.
You take your veggies and chop them up finely and cook them in a skillet until they become a little soft, next, you take the black beans and cook them in a different pot until fully cooked, then, you take your rotel and black beans and pour them together and stir and VOILA! Finished. We serve it over white rice but there really isn't a need for the rice unless ypou are trying to stretch the meal. This feeds about 8 people.

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