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Yummy Southern Beans & Cornbread Bowl Recipe

Beans and Cornbread Bowl

This one-bowl dish features your dried bean of choice, cornbread and coleslaw, topped with dice tomatoes, chopped onion and a bit of chow chow relish on the side.

Course Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine American, Southern, Vegetarian
Keyword budget meal, coleslaw, pinto beans
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Servings 6

Ingredients

Pinto (or other dried bean) Ingredients

  • 1 lb Dried Beans
  • 1 Tbsp Sugar
  • 3 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Pepper

Coleslaw Ingredients

  • 3/4 head Cabbage
  • 3 Tbsp Mayonnaise
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste

Toppings

  • Diced Tomato
  • Chopped Sweet Onion or Green Onions
  • Chow Chow Relish

Instructions

Pinto (or other dried bean) Cooking Instructions

  1. Rinse dried beans, place in Dutch oven and cover with six cups of water.

  2. Bring water to a boil over medium high heat and lower heat to medium low.

  3. Simmer for one hour. Add sugar, salt and pepper and stir.

  4. Stir sporadically and add additional water, as needed. Typically, an additional two cups of water will need to be added during the total cooking time.

  5. Simmer for approximately 2 additional hours. Check beans for doneness. They should be soft, but not mushy.

    NOTE: It is important that the finished beans include a nice amount of liquid or "soup" as this will be needed when the Beans and Cornbread Bowl is assembled.

Pinto (or other dried bean) Cooking Instructions -- When They Are Pre-Soaked

  1. Place beans in large pot. Add six cups of water. Soak overnight.

  2. Drain and rinse beans.

  3. Place rinsed beans in a Dutch oven and cover with six cups of water.

  4. Bring water to a boil over medium high heat and lower heat to medium low.

  5. Simmer for one hour and add sugar, salt and pepper.

  6. Simmer for an additional one half hour. Stir occasionally and add additional water, as needed.

    NOTE: It is important that the finished beans include a nice amount of liquid or "soup" as this will be needed when the Beans and Cornbread Bowl is assembled.

Cornbread Instructions

  1. Mix and bake cornbread according to the directions on the mix.

Coleslaw Instructions

  1. Wash and cut 3/4 of a medium-sized cabbage into small chunks.

  2. Load the cabbage chunks in small batches to the food processor chute.

  3. Pulse/process cabbage in a food process with the small shred blade.

  4. Dump chopped slaw into large mixing bowl.

  5. Add mayonnaise and stir mixture.

  6. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Beans and Cornbread Bowl Assembly Instructions

  1. Crumble a square of warm cornbread in an individual bowl.

  2. Top the cornbread with the warm beans (and include some of the bean liquid.)

  3. Top the beans with the coleslaw.

  4. Add diced tomatoes, chopped onions and chow chow relish.