Pinto beans with pork over cornbread. Dried pintos beans cook up creamy and tender with a smoky, silky sauce that's perfect with cornbread. I love me some pinto beans. Throw some fatback or ham hocks in the pot, cook them low and slow then eat them up with some skillet cornbread and diced onion and I'm in heaven!
A little bit of lard adds a flavorful richness to this bean stew.
Bake up a batch of cornbread, cut a slice and pour cold milk over it in a glass.
Beans served over cornbread with fixings.
You can have Pinto beans with pork over cornbread using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Pinto beans with pork over cornbread
- You need of bag of Pinto beans made according to the package.
- You need of pack of boneless cubed pork.
- It's of large onion diced.
- Prepare of carrots diced.
- Prepare of garlic cloves minced.
- It's of minced onion.
- It's of garlic powder.
- It's of celery salt.
- Prepare of bacon bits. (Picture of the package is posted below).
- It's of Jiffy muffin mix made according to package.
Beans and cornbread go together like peanut butter and jelly. They're so good when served together. How to make Beans and Cornbread: This recipe begins by rinsing dried pinto beans really well. Pour cornbread batter over beans, spreading with back of spoon.
Pinto beans with pork over cornbread step by step
- In 3-4 cups of water boil pork, onion, garlic and carrots until all is tender..
- While that's boiling you can quick soak your beans according to package directions. Also make your cornbread according to package directions..
- After an hour of the pork mixture boiling and the beans soaking, you can add them all to the same pan and continue boiling. For another hour to an hour and a half. You can taste test and stop when you like. But during that time add the minced onion, garlic powder, celery salt and bacon bits..
- Crumble cornbread onto dish and cover with beans. Make sure to get some of the juice too. There's a lot of flavor in it..
Dressed up with corn kernels, pre-cooked polenta is a cinch to transform into savory fritters. Dried beans were affordable, stored well, full of much needed protein, carbs, and fiber, and were filling enough to provide a stick-to-your-ribs meal that was greatly appreciate by people who had spent This method of soaking and cooking dried beans will work for any type of dried bean, not just pintos. This hearty pinto bean dish uses smoked ham hock to add flavor and richness. A bit of tomato sauce and brown sugar gives this meal a little zing. I've added to the recipe, and my Mother used to say mine were the best beans she'd ever tasted.
