Crock Pot Pinto Beans

5 from 30 votes

Crock Pot Pinto Beans

These Crock Pot Pinto Beans turn dried beans into tender, flavorful beans with onion, jalapeño, garlic, cumin, and oregano. They're an inexpensive, hands-off side dish or vegetarian dinner, and you can make them with soaked or unsoaked beans.

Prep Time15

Cook Time8

Soaking Beans8

Total Time16 15

Servings: servings

Calories: 286kcal

Author: Lisa Longley

Ingredients

1 pound dry pinto beans sorted and rinsed
1 small yellow onion diced
1 jalapeno pepper diced with ribs and seeds removed
4 garlic cloves minced
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon kosher salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
4 cups low sodium vegetable broth see note

Instructions

Place the dry beans in a large bowl the night before making this recipe, and cover them with two inches of water. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator. (See note about skipping soaking.) In the morning, drain the beans and rinse them two times.
1 pound dry pinto beans
In a large slow cooker (at least 6 quarts), add the beans and the remaining ingredients.
1 small yellow onion, 1 jalapeno pepper, 4 garlic cloves, 1 teaspoon dried oregano, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, 4 cups low sodium vegetable broth
Cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 4 hours or until beans are tender.
At the end of the cooking time, you can keep the beans whole and use them as a side dish, as a taco filling, or over rice. You can also mash them and use them in place of refried beans.

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Notes

Skipping soaking the beans: This recipe can be made without soaking the beans first. Simply add two cups of water and cook the recipe for two additional hours on low for a total of 10 hours. Please note that this can lead to perfectly cooked beans with just a slightly less creamy texture.

Vegetable broth: This can be replaced with chicken broth if you don't need to keep the recipe vegetarian. Stick with low sodium so you can control the salt content of the final recipe.

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