Recipe of home made black beans

In Brazil we normaly use the pressure cooker! If you don’t have one, you can cook on a normal pot bu will take much longer. But let’s go and have one nutricious meal at home.

Ingredients

250g of black beans
1 litre of boiling water
3 garlic cloves
Salt to taste
Cooking oil

Method of Preparation

First we give a quick wash to the black beans

and place it in the pressure cocker with the boiling water.
Put the lid on and after it gets the pressure on, cook for around 30 minutes in medium heat.
Get the pressure of and open the cooker. Return to medium heat. Check the amount of water at the cooker. It must be covering the black beans. Add water if needed and keep cooking with open lid.
In a pan you heat the oil and add the minced garlic.
Add salt.
Transfer the cooked beans to the pan.
Stir and let it boil for around 5 minutes.