Refried beans Refried beans Refried beans (Spanish: "frijoles refritos") is a dish of cooked and mashed beans and is a traditional staple of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, although each cuisine has a different approach when making the dish. Refried beans are also popular in many other Latin American countries. The name is a direct calque of Spanish "frijoles refritos", "refritos" meaning "rehashed" or "reheated" in English. In this dish, after being boiled and then mashed into a paste, the beans are sometimes then fried or baked, though usually neither, thus making the term "refried" even more misleading. In northern Mexico and in
Frijoles negros sometimes other ingredients. Black beans are high in folate (256mcg), iron (3.61mg), magnesium (120mg), and phosphorus (241mg); they are also a source of zinc (1.92mg), niacin (2mg), and thiamine (0.42mg) - based on 1 cup portion size. Frijoles negros Frijoles negros (literally "black beans" in Spanish) is a Hispanic dish made with black beans, prepared in Cuba, Venezuela (where it is called Caraotas Negras), Puerto Rico, Mexico, and other nations in Latin America. The black bean, a legume of the species "Phaseolus vulgaris", is usually purchased in either canned or dried form. 1 cup of dried black beans yields approximately