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| Courtesy: Recreating Happiness |
Our friends at Recreating Happiness.com claim this is a great dish for many reasons. First, it’s versitile. It can be made with meat, vegetarian, or even vegan. Eat it in a bowl, over tortilla chips, as a dip, as tacos, or use corn tortillas to use it as a quesadilla filling. It is also it’s cheap and allergen free. It freezes well. And of course the most important thing is that it tastes really good!
You can make it vegetarian, but with our Cuban heritage...we prefer meat.
Ingredients
- 4-5 cups cooked rice
- 2 tbsp grapeseed or olive oil
- 8 oz ground sausage, beef, turkey, or pork, optional
- ½ large onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 2 heaping teaspoons cumin
- dash ground cloves
- 2 cans black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 can of water
Instructions
- In large saucepan heat the oil over medium heat. Brown meat, if using, and then add in onions, garlic, jalapeno pepper, and bay leaf. Saute until onion is soft.
- Add in oregano, cumin, and cloves. Stir and cook about 2 minutes. Add black beans, tomatoes, salt, red wine vinegar, honey, and water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer about 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
- Mix in rice and serve.
Notes
This recipe is adapted from a wonderful book titled The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook by Cybele Pascal. If you need to be top 8 free then this is the best cookbook out there in my opinion. It’s been years since we’ve needed to be top 8 free and yet we still use many of the recipes found in this treasure trove of recipes. It is not technically a gluten free cookbook however it’s fairly simple to convert most of the recipes since they are all wheat free recipes.
Read more: http://recreatinghappiness.com/dinner-recipes/gluten-free-cuban-rice-beans-recipe/#ixzz2yyMZc3Al
