Why just have black beans, when you can put chorizo in it too?

Ingredients

• 1 lb bag of black beans
• 1/2 lb loose chorizo
• 1 large onion diced
• 1 green pepper diced
• 1 stalk celery diced
• 1 carrot diced small
• 1 tbs ground cumin
• 2 tsp mexican oregano
• 10 cloves garlic coarsely chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• chicken stock
• 2 tbs sherry vinegar
• Cooked white rice

Directions

1. Soak beans overnight in 2 qts water w/ 2 tbs kosher salt
2. Put beans + soaking water + 1 quart chicken stock + 1/2 of the onion + 6 cloves garlic + bay into dutch oven
3. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, cook for 60 minutes skimming every 10 or so minutes
4. At the end of the hour, brown the chorizo on medium high in a skillet with some canola oil.
5. Evac the chorizo, reduce heat to medium low
6. Add more oil if you think you need it and cook the remaining onion + green pepper + celery + carrot till soft.
7. At the end, add the cumin + oregano + garlic.  Cook for a two minutes more
8. Add the sherry vinegar, cook for 20 seconds.
9. Throw veggies (really a sofrito) and the chorizo into the pot with the beans
10. Cook for ~45 minutes more until the beans are done.  If the liquid level ever gets too low, add more stock.  You’ll figure it out.
11. Serve over rice

Props

I love black beans and rice.   I’ve tried over the years to make a good version and never quite hit upon a version i liked.  This one is the first that i wanted to write down after making it.

I started craving this after seeing a recipe for black bean soup in Antony Bourdain’s cookbook, Appetites.  There are a ton of things i want to cook in that book.  This recipe is that recipe mashed together with Sofia Pelaez’s recipe in her excellent cookbook, The Cuban Table.

This could also be a soup if you held off on readding the chorizo, let the beans and the sofrito cook for a bit, added more stock, and spun with a stick blender.

You could also maybe make this vegetarian by using veggie stock and adding in the spices that are brought by the chorizo.  But why would you?!?