Cowboy beans

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Cowboy Beans
Course
American Southwest
Serving temperatureHot
Main ingredientsBeans (usually pinto, black-eyed), onion powder, ketchup, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, black pepper, milk, flour
Lamb chops with guajillo chili sauce and charro beans. Frijoles charros, or "cowboy beans", is a traditional Mexican dish. The dish is characterized by pinto beans stewed with onion, garlic, and bacon.

Cowboy beans (also known as chuckwagon beans) is a bean dish popular in the southwestern United States. The dish consists of

ranch hands would have eaten in the 19th century.[3] Cowboy beans are served stewed or baked,[4]
depending on the recipe.

It is unclear how cowboy beans got their name or where they originated. They are easy to prepare and variations on the recipe are available on the Internet and in cookbooks and cooking magazines. Cowboy beans use many of the same ingredients as chili con carne with a very different taste.

Cowboy beans is a staple food in Texas.[2]

Ingredients

Cowboy beans (bottom-left) accompanying a steak dinner

A typical recipe might include:

See also

References

  1. . Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  2. ^ . Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ^ "What did cowboys eat?". Bushcraft Buddy. 2020-04-23. Archived from the original on 2021-12-31. Retrieved 2022-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. . Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  5. ^ "Old-Time Vittles". Backpacker. September 2000.

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