Black Bean Soup With Chorizo and Braised Chicken

A hearty bean and chicken stew flavored with chorizo and chipotle chilies. It takes a little time for the flavors to come together, but the process is easy and the results are worth the wait.

30-Minute Black Bean Soup

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

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...

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.

Real-Deal Tortilla Soup

The mild heat of this hearty ancho chile-based soup is balanced by sweet corn and black beans.

Meat Lite: Black Beans and Rice, My Way

Creamy, tender beans, every time.

Black Nightfall Beans With Red Chili Pods, Tomatoes, and Avocado From 'The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone'

Beans and rice are a staple for good reason—they're hearty, simple, and a perfect blank canvas for many different flavors. Deborah Madison gives several variations for both beans and rice in her recently re-released cookbook, The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, one of the greatest of which is this creamy amalgamation of heirloom spotted black beans with New Mexican chilies.

Chili Recipe | Cook the Book

"All along I had been searching for a chili that tasted like chiles, and this one was it." [Photograph: Caroline Russock] Recently I have been craving nothing but spicy food—really spicy food. Not just hot sauce spicy but tingling, lip-burning,...

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.

Frijoles Molidos (Refried Beans)

Deeply flavored and rich, these refried beans are cooked slowly and with care. The results are a big step up from those bland restaurant versions.