This flavorful dish is filling and hearty with pinto beans and a little bit of hot sauce for spice.
How To Make Pinto Beans and Ham Hocks
Pork and beans has always had a special relationship. This wonderful take on the classic marriage is definitely a must try! Tender beans slowly cooked along with ham hocks for a delicate cooking that leaves you with juicy and pull-apart tender pork.
Prep:
30 mins
Cook:
1 hr 5 mins
Total:
1 hr 35 mins
Ingredients
- 3 smoked ham hocks
- 2 lb dried pinto beans
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp red pepper, crushed
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tsp hot sauce
- ½ onion, medium, chopped
Instructions
- Boil ham hocks on high heat for 45 minutes.
- Add all seasonings except hot sauce and onion.
- Continue boiling for 20 minutes.
- Add pinto beans, hot sauce, and onion.
- Boil on medium heat until beans are done to taste.
- Note: To speed up cooking of beans and reduce the gas that beans produce, soak beans in cold water overnight or for three hours during the day.
- Serve with rice and a meat side dish.
- You can also use the ham hocks as your meat side dish.
- However, ham hocks are a high-fat food.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 5g
- :
- Calcium: 279mg
- Calories: 1117kcal
- Carbohydrates: 144g
- Cholesterol: 107mg
- Fat: 25g
- Fiber: 35g
- Iron: 13mg
- Potassium: 3540mg
- Protein: 76g
- Saturated Fat: 9g
- Sodium: 626mg
- Vitamin A: 19IU
- Vitamin C: 18mg
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