I know, I know, a bowl of refried beans looks less appetizing than a McRib that has been sitting on a city sidewalk for 4 hours on a muggy, summer day [though some may disagree……. Uh hem… Liz], but hey there is some big game on Sunday and these comes into play.
Lauren here, your Magic Bullet Blender Kitchen Magician, and shoot I am ready for baseball season to start. #Yankees
Regardless, I do absolutely live and die for entertaining – always have. Full belly, full heart.
When still in Boston around this time of year, weekends were the time for me to cook for the boys.. but really whip out the big guns. Below is a basic recipe for one of my go-to layered Taco Dips.
Easy, popular, great for Superbowl Sunday, and also for summer time roofdeck cook outs.. but I’m sharing with you the one step I take with the Magic Bullet Blender, that brings this to the next level and that is infusing your REFRIED BEANS with some ridiculous flavor…
You will notice that I did not photograph the ‘final product’ which is the Taco Dip, but you can’t blame me for not wanting to have a platter of taco dip in the house on a Tuesday for no legitimate reason. Dangerous.. like snakes on a plane. Ask Samuel. He knows.
Superbowl Sunday – try it out. K?
REFRIED BEANS
MAGIC BULLET BLENDER PARTS
- [1] Magic Bullet Blender Tall Cup
- [1] Magic Bullet Blender Cross Blade
INGREDIENTS
- [2] 16 oz. cans – traditional refried beans
- [4] slices bacon
- [3/4] yellow onion, sliced
- [approx. 1/2 Cup] water
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add bacon to frying pan on medium / med.-hi heat
- Fry until ALMOST all the way crisp
- Add onion to frying pan and sauté with bacon grease until soft
- Remove bacon and onions from pan and set aside
- Move frying pan off of heated burner
- To you tall cup add bacon [you can just crumble it up], onions and water
- Blend with cross blade for about 10 seconds
- If you need to stop half way through and give it a good shake, go right ahead
- Add refried beans and blended bacon onion mixture BACK to same pan on medium-low heat
- Stir every 5 minutes for about 15 minutes
- Remove from heat, pop into bowl and let cool
- Toss those babies in the fridge and you will be good for game time
I would sometimes serve those just warm with tortilla chips on their own as well… those little frijoles have enough flavor in them that you can get away with doing that.
Now, for the full recipe using those beans, see below. Again, there is a solid chance you have seen this one.. but the beans baby. They make the difference.
NO COOK LAYERED TACO DIP
INGREDIENTS
- Bullet Baked Beans [listed above]
- [2] 16 oz containers of sour cream
- [2] packets of your favorite taco seasoning mix
- [2] tomatoes, roughly chopped
- [2] small cans of chopped black olives – I usually use about 12 ounces total, but some folks like less.
- [3] scallions, roughly chopped
- [1.5 Cups] finely shredded cheddar cheese
- [1.5 Cups] shredded Monterey jack cheese
- [2] bags of tortilla chips
INSTRUCTIONS
- On to a large, flat platter.
**For this ‘platter’ you have a LOT of options. If I am taking this on the road, I have used one of the deep Pyrex dishes with the covers. I’ve also just grabbed an aluminum casserole baking dish from the grocery store and done it with that. When at home, I’ll use a larger serving platter – looks cool that way because you can see all of the layers. Start with the beans going all the way to the edges and have each layer go a bit smaller circumference wise. - Coat the bottom with your baked beans. Again, these can come right from the fridge – just spatula those babies and cover the entire bottom.
- In a bowl, stir together your sour cream and taco season
- Add the sour cream taco seasoning mixture of delish on top of your beans
- Next, drain your can[s] of black olives, onto the sour cream mix they go
- Followed by tomatoes
- Then scallions
- Then cheese
- Stick some chips around the edges to make it look like a huge, taco sun just before serving.
- Anddd ya done.
I ALWAYS make this guy in advance too. Night before or morning of, cover it tight, into the fridge, take it out when time for kick off.
Okay my little wide receivers, I have my favorite clients from Seattle in town and with us at work today sooo I’m off to talk about electricity and maybe get in a good ole game of Q-bert. Who knows. Oh hey the New York Rangers – Eastern Conference, first place.
I’ll have one more Superbowl recipe comin atcha tomorrow – but in the meantime, Happiest Blending, from my huge, frijole loving heart – to all of Yours!
Xo – Lauren
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