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Any other WIC mamma's out there? Do you have those huge piles of beans in your pantry or cabinet building higher and higher every month? How 'bout cheese? Need something new to use up those cans of beans and blocks of cheeses? Here's my new WIC refried beans recipe:
Homemade Refried Beans
- 2 cans of pinto beans
- 2 tbl onion pwd
- 1 tbl onion salt
- dash of regular salt
- 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese {for top}
In a medium sized sauce pan dump your 2 cans of beans {mainly drained} along with all of your seasonings and 1/4 cup cheese.
Begin to heat them stirring occasionally so it doesn't burn on the bottom of the pan. Lower the temp when it begins to boil as to let it just simmer.
Mash beans with a potato masher. I don't like big pieces of bean skin so I used a blender to puree' them even more {optional}.
After they're well mixed then I poured them into a serving dish and shredded the other 1/4 cup cheese over the top. I made mine a head of time to you can reheat the beans closer to time either in the microwave or in the oven.
This entire recipe only takes about 5 minutes. Hope you like!
Do you have any recipes to help use up some of those monthly WIC items?
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Your recipe looks good… I don’t have a recent tip to link up, but I will try to think of one for next week.
Thanks! Keep in mind, you can submit ANY thoughtful post {old or new} for the link-up {recipes, tools you like, cleaning tips, educational helps, DIY projects, etc}!
I linked up… turns out I was really crafty two years ago… Sad…
Love craftiness no matter how far and in between they are!!! THANKS!
I clicked on your recipe because I have a ton of beans from WIC and was looking for a good refried bean recipe. I figured the description just had a typo. Upon reading through your recipe I discovered that wasn’t the case. Unfortunately I am unable to use your recipe for dinner tonight as WIC does not issue vouchers for canned beans. Your choices are peanut butter or dried beans. I need a recipe for cooking and seasoning dried beans. Just thought you might like to know about the WIC thing, as it is misleading.
I’m sorry the recipe won’t work for you. I guess you could cook the beans first and then follow the recipe.
I’m not sure what state you are in but here in AR they do allow you to purchase beans in dried OR canned form {4 at a time} and the peanut butter is only issued for pregnant/nursing moms as a separate thing, not instead of beans. I didn’t realize WIC was different in different places.
Just soak you dried beans over night in cold water. Drain water and add around 6 cup cold water to beans and cook till tender. Most beans have the directions on the package.
I add 2 table spoons of vegetable oil to heated a non stick skillet. Then add add 2 cups of drained beans. Reserve bean liquid you will need it in a min. Mash beans with the back of a spoon or fork. we like ours a little lumpy but you can mash as much as you like. Add enough been liquid to make the dip the constancy you want. Then add salt, pepper, chili powder, and cumin ,onion powder and garlic powder to taste. Top with shredded cheddar cheese and heat till melted. not the best at giving directions but i tend not to measure when cooking but I hope this helps : ) Have a Blessed day.
Misty, thanks for the help there with the dry beans! I only used canned so that was super helpful. Love the combo of seasonings! I’m gonna have to try that. {and I don’t measure often either 😉 }
Thanks for the recipe! I told my mom I’m enlisting her help on canning refried beans. As somebody else commented, we get dried beans. I was actually offered a choice but since my can cupboard is usually full, I opted for dry. But I can never get them to taste good, I never thought about putting cheese in with them. I do put taco seasoning in them though. I’ll have to try the puree in the blender. The blocks of cheese, I just shred and use that way. The baby food I cook with (bananas and any combination apple make for some great pancakes). The only other thing we have problems using is tuna. I’ve made tuna tacos (with avocado), tuna burgers (2 cans tuna, one can cream of mushroom soup. Put on hamburger buns, open face under broiler until somewhat crusty.) and tuna sandwiches.
Thanks for the tuna suggestions! We can have trouble switching up meals enough to use it well.