Authentic Mexican Frijoles Puercos
Frijoles Puercos
If you’re a fan of refried beans, you’re going to love this recipe for frijoles puercos (pork beans). Smooth and creamy, this savory dish can be served as a bean dip, an appetizer, or a side dish, paired perfectly with Mexican Carne Asada or Steak Tacos.
Learn how to make your own with our step-by-step frijoles puercos recipe.
What Are Frijoles Puercos?
Frijoles puercos is a flavor-packed dish made with refried beans, chorizo, cheese, and pickled jalapeño chiles. Like most Mexican food, you’ll find variations of these pork beans throughout the different regions in Mexico.
In some states, they use cheeses like queso Chihuahua (Chihuahua cheese), queso añejo (aged cheese), queso fresco (fresh cheese) or Cotija cheese. Others make this dish with avocado, bacon, chiles Serranos, and even sardines as they do in the state of Sinaloa.
One thing everyone can agree on is that frijoles puercos are delicious no matter how they’re prepared—and they pack a protein punch!
How Are Frijoles Puercos Different from Frijoles Charros?
While frijoles puercos are blended and smooth, similar to refried beans, frijoles charros (cowboy beans) is more like a soup or stew with whole beans in bean broth and larger pieces of meat and vegetables.
In frijoles puercos, the chorizo is broken into small pieces, whereas the chorizo in frijoles charros is in slices. Finally, frijoles puercos are typically served as an appetizer or side dish, while frijoles charros can be served as a main entrée.
What to Expect From This Recipe
This frijoles puercos recipe starts with bayo beans cooked in broth, so you’ll need to make a pot of frijoles de olla (beans in a pot) first. Then you’ll do some chopping and grating, blend the beans, cook them with the vegetables and chorizo, stir in the jalapeños and cheese, and it’s time to eat!
How the Frijoles Puercos Recipe Is Structured
These instructions are broken down into three simple sections:
Preparing Your Ingredients
Cooking the Veggies, Chorizo and Beans.
Serving and Eating.
Are you ready to make a creamy batch of Mexican pork beans?.
Learn How to Make Frijoles Puercos.
Prepare Your Ingredients.
Get started with your Mexican pork beans by dicing the onion, slicing the garlic, shredding the mozzarella cheese, and cutting the butter into pats. Remove any plastic casing or metal clips from your chorizo, and have your bowl of cooked bayo beans ready to go. (You can use our recipe for frijoles de olla to make your beans.)
Spoon cooked beans into the blender, adding broth as necessary. Be sure to blend in parts.
Continue to blend the beans until they reach a creamy consistency. Pour your blended beans into a separate bowl and set aside.
Cook the Veggies, Chorizo and Beans.
Heat a pot over high heat. Add the sliced garlic and cook for 30 seconds or until fragrant, stirring constantly so the garlic doesn’t burn.
Next, spoon the onions into the pot and give it a quick stir.
Add the chorizo to the pot with the onions and break it up using a wooden spoon.
Cook the chorizo until it darkens in color and becomes slightly crispy. Then lower the heat to medium.
Pour the beans into the pot.
Cook the beans for 10 minutes, stirring constantly so they don’t stick to the bottom of the pot.
Sprinkle in salt to taste and stir to combine.
Pour in the pickled jalapeños, along with the liquid. You can use as many jalapeños as you like for this recipe, either whole or chopped. Here, we used six whole jalapeños. Stir the chilis and liquid into the beans and cook for 5 minutes, continuing to stir constantly.
Now, turn off the heat and sprinkle the grated mozzarella cheese onto the beans.
Stir well to melt the cheese into the beans.
Serve and Eat
Garnish with grated mozzarella cheese and whole jalapeños. Can’t wait to dig in!
Serve with a stack of hot, fresh tortillas, tortillas chips, tostadas, or as a side dish to any tacos. Either way, you’re going to love these frijoles puercos!
Buen provecho!
Frijoles Puercos
Frijoles puercos is a savory, creamy dish made with refried beans, chorizo, pickled jalapeño chiles, and mozzarella cheese. Enjoy as a dip, appetizer, or side dish for your favorite Mexican entrée.
Course Beans.
Cuisine Mexican.
Total Time 30 minutes minutes.
Servings 8.
