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Pinto Bean Recipes

Could you list some recipes that use raw pinto beans? --Pamela
Hi Pamela! I think you’re talking about using dried pinto beans, as opposed to cooking with canned, already-cooked beans – is that right?  (I hope so, because eating raw beans of any type--except for green beans, which are a different animal altogether--is a no-no because they contain enzymes that are toxic; cooking neutralizes those enzymes.)  All that said, I don’t have many recipes that call for dried pinto beans; most of my bean recipes use canned beans because I know how time-pressed moms and dads are these days. But I do have one recipe: Bronco Buster Soup uses dried pinto beans. But did you know that you can use your own homemade beans in any recipe that calls for canned beans? One 15-ounce can contains about 1 3/4 cups beans. So go ahead and use your home-cooked beans (pintos or other kinds) in recipes like Cuban Black Bean SoupPasta e Fagioli, Five-Way Cincinnati Chili and any of my other Bean Recipes.

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My daughter and her husband grew pinto beans..so I have quite a few raw pinto beans (I realize they need to be soaked before use) and was looking for recipes to use them.

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