Easy Slow Cooker Charro Beans Recipe
Get restaurant quality flavor with almost zero effort. Easy slow cooker charro beans using dried pintos, bacon & a savory broth. Traditional or Borracho style!
Servings 8 to 10 servings
Calories 229kcal
Ingredients
- 1 pound of dry pinto beans
- 1 smoked ham hock or two smoked neck bones
- 8 ounces of chorizo sausage (the type that comes in sausage form, not the ground chorizo) or smoked sausage
- 1 to 2 jalapeños diced , (optional)
- 1 onion quartered
- 2 tomatoes quartered
- 4 garlic cloves roughly chopped
- 1 whole green pepper roughly chopped
- 1 whole red pepper roughly chopped
- ¼ teaspoon of black pepper
- 5 cups of chicken broth
- 1 twelve ounce bottle of dark beer
- 2 sprigs of cilantro chopped
- ½ tablespoon garlic powder
- ½ tablespoon onion powder
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Rinse the pinto beans with water.
- Remove any stone pieces or dirt pieces from the pintos.
- Soak the pintos in a covered dish of water in the refrigerator overnight.
- Drain the water off.
- Put all of the ingredients (except the beer and salt) into the slow cooker.
- Gently stir the ingredients together.
- Cook the pinto mixture for 7 hours in slow cooker using low heat.
- Then, add the beer and the ½ cup of chopped cilantro to the slow cooker.
- Salt the pinto mixture to taste.
- Cook for another hour.
- Garnish with the cooked pinto mixture with the remaining cilantro. Then serve.
Nutrition
Calories: 229kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 46mg | Sodium: 603mg | Potassium: 526mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 976IU | Vitamin C: 45mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 2mg