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

  Dried

  1 leaf or 0.2g

• 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. Add the onion, garlic, bell pepper, and cilantro to a mini food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Warm the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, then sauté the mixture until softened and fragrant, about 2 minutes.
2. Stir in the kidney beans with their liquid, water, tomato sauce, potato, sazon, bay leaf, oregano, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then cover, reduce the heat to low, and simmer until the potato is tender, about 20 minutes.
3. Remove and discard the bay leaf. Taste and adjust seasoning, then serve warm, optionally over cooked rice.