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Oaxacan · Sauce / condiment
Pasta de Frijol Negro
Oaxaca's black bean paste: beans simmered soft, puréed with a toasted chile and anise-scented avocado leaves, then fried down to a smooth spread as dense as cream cheese, for tlayudas, memelas, molletes and enfrijoladas.
- YieldMakes about 4 cups (1 L)
- Hands-on45 min
- Total2 h 25 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 455 gdried black beans, picked over and rinsed
- 4 clovesgarlic, peeled
- 50 gwhite onion, half of a small onion, cut in half again
- to tastesea salt
- 1chile de arbol, stem removed
- 2 leavesdried avocado leaves
- 2 tbspvegetable oil
- 30 gwhite onion, finely chopped (about 1/4 cup)
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