Spicy Chorizo and Pinto Bean Chili

Spicy, vinegary, and flavor-packed, this quick chili recipe relies on raw Mexican-style chorizo (you can make it yourself or buy it from a store), with a few simple flavor additions, a couple of cans of beans, and a quick simmer.

Rick Bayless's Black Bean Soup Recipe | Cook the Book

[Photograph: Caroline Russock] The majority of recipes I write about here in Cook the Book end up being my dinner and this week's selection has posed a bit of a problem. You see, with the exception of ramen and pho,...

Pressure Cooker Black Bean Soup With Sausage and Cumin-Lime Sour Cream

This easy black bean soup with smoky andouille sausage and diced mushrooms tastes like it cooked for hours, but thanks to the pressure cooker, it's ready in just one. A bright cumin-lime sour cream tops it off.

30-Minute Black Bean Soup

An easy and filling weeknight dinner that comes together quickly with ingredients you already have in your pantry.

Crispy Braised Chicken With White Beans and Chile Verde

Chicken legs are browned and braised in a stew of green chiles and white beans. The key to a richly flavorful green chili is to peel the chilies and use their charred skins for the sauce base.

Quick and Easy Pressure Cooker Black Beans With Chorizo

The fastest and easiest way to cook black beans is in the pressure cooker. In this recipe, we combine them with spicy, smoky chorizo.

Chipotle and Chorizo Red Beans

[Photograph: Max Falkowitz] Canned chipotles in adobo sauce bring sweet smoke, earthiness, and plenty of heat to vinegar- and chorizo-spiked beans. I'm partial to bola roja beans, which are firm, meaty, and handle stewing nearly forever, but any red bean...

Quick and Easy Pressure Cooker Chicken and Black Bean Stew

Black beans are stewed in the pressure cooker with spicy Hatch chiles, smoky andouille sausage, and fall-off-the-bone tender chicken legs.

The Best White Chili With Chicken

Tender, creamy, spicy, and bright, this is the stuff even a dyed-in-the-wool chili con carne traditionalist will dip their finger into when they think nobody is watching.

Braised Chicken with Black Bean Sauce

A Cantonese classic: chicken simmered in black bean sauce, with fermented black beans with loads of minced garlic. The beans and the garlic are a snappy pairing, and there is enough sauce in the pot to spoon on top of rice or noodles for a one-dish meal.