Recipes of Arkadia: Betsy's Picante Beans - M. Darusha Wehm

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 onion (diced)
• 2 cloves garlic (crushed)
• 1 small chili pepper (seeded and diced)
• 1 sweet green pepper (diced)
• 1/2 cup dried kidney beans (soaked overnight)
• 1/2 cup dried chick peas (soaked overnight)
• 1 cup vegetable stock
• 6 tomatoes (diced)
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• salt
• coriander leaf (cilantro)
• Soak the beans overnight in fresh water.
• Sauté the onion and garlic in the oil, adding salt and spices. Add the chili and sweet peppers, and cook until soft.
• Add the vegetable stock and kidney beans, simmer until they are getting tender. Add the chick peas, and simmer until nearly done. Add more stock or water if the mixture sticks or dries out.
• Add the tomatoes, simmer until the tomatoes have cooked down.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaf.