Making homemade refried beans is really easy and so worth it. You can control the taste and variety and amount of fat. When I want to be indulgent, I use bacon grease, but usually I use Canola or Olive Oil to cook the beans.
Cook the dried beans according to the instructions. Usually you have to soak them and then cook them for a couple hours. Don't salt the water in the beginning. It hardens the beans, and they take longer to cook. Once they are soft, then you can add salt to taste. Don't go overboard, just enough to add a little flavor. Then puree the beans using an immersion or regular blender with a little of the cooking liquid. You want them to be a little runnier than what you want as refried beans.
Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a pan and cook a bunch of garlic and onions until they begin to get soft. Take out all the garlic and onions. Then add your pureed beans to the oil. Cook the beans until they start to get nice and thick and you can smell that they are toasting a little bit. Done.
This last time I just used garlic, but I used a LOT of garlic. The beans were amazing.
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