Puerto Rican Style Beans

Ingredients

• Onions

  Raw

  ½ small or 35g

• Garlic

  Raw

  3 cloves, minced or 9g

• Red bell pepper

  Sweet, raw

  ⅓ cup, chopped or 50g

• Fresh cilantro

  Coriander leaves, raw

  4 tbsp or 4g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tsp or 5g

• Kidney beans

  All types, mature seeds, canned

  1 ½ cup or 384g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  ¾ cup or 178g

• Tomato sauce

  No salt added

  ½ cup or 123g

• Potato

  Flesh and skin, raw

  1 Potato medium or 213g

• Seasoning mix, dry, sazon, coriander & annatto

  ½ tsp or 2g

• Bay leaf

  Spices

  1 tsp, crumbled or 0.6g

• Oregano

  Spices, dried

  ⅛ tsp, leaves or 0.1g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  1 dash or 0.1g

Directions

1. In a mini food processor, chop the onions, garlic, red bell pepper, and cilantro. Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat and sauté the chopped ingredients until soft, about 2 minutes.
2. Add the kidney beans with their liquid to the saucepan along with water. Stir in the tomato sauce, chopped potato, sazon seasoning, bay leaf, oregano, salt, and a dash of black pepper. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer on low heat for about 20 minutes, or until the potatoes are soft.
3. Discard the bay leaf and serve the beans over rice.