black beans

[desh]

So what's your favorite way to cook/spice a can of black beans? For making beans and rice or something? Actually never done this before, and I know that the beans just heated plain from the can are quite bland.

Vegetarian, please. And thanks!

Comments

Glop.

[wetdryvac]

Cook up buttered, spiced rice - if using a rice cooker, I just toss about a tablespoon of butter in per cup of rice, a pinch of garlic, and a crushed cardamom pod. If I'm cooking the rice in a pot, I grease the bottom of the pot with butter before adding the water and rice, and then use a little less butter over the top.

I heat olive oil, just enough to coat in the pan I'm going to mix everything together. Large fry-pan by choice. To this I add some thin-sliced onion, tomato, basil, and garlic (I prefer fresh, but the last two can be powder/flake as well), and when that's sizzling gently (I turn down the heat), I add a teaspoon or a bit more of green Thai curry, and let it heat another couple minutes on the lowest fire I can get from my gas stove.

Once the rice is done and the beans are warm I glop everything together, grate some cheese over it, and add sour cream. Proper consistency should make a peculiar sucking sound when a spoon is run through it.