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- HappyTreesDec 26 2017
@Nena433 @natman1 Hello. Sure, here is the recipe. Clean and rinse your bag of dry black beans then place in a pot of water about 5-6 cups with a piece of onion, garlic clove, cumin, bay leaf and piece of green pepper. Let that cook down about 45 or so. Be sure to not cook too high because then your water evaporates and if you have to add extra water it will not come out as black. Now in a separate pot cook your sofrito. Preferably in the same pot as you will cook your rice in. Add olive oil to the pan, finely chopped green and red pepper, onion and chopped garlic. Let that cook down until very tender Once beans are done. Discard green pepper, bay leaf, garlic clove and onion. Strain black bean water and place black beans in a separate bowl. You should have yielded about 2 cups of black bean water. Now add your clean and rinsed rice (rice amount according to how much bean water you yielded) to the sofrito pot, add your black bean water, add olive oil, cumin, salt, pepper, garlic powder and a little paprika. Taste to make sure nothing else is missing. Bring to a boil then cook on low (about a 2-3 on my stove) until rice is done. Last add some of your cooked beans in the pot once done. I do this step last to ensure no beans get mushed during the cooking process. You can store or freeze remaining beans for another recipe as you won’t be using them all. Also make sure to use only the black bean water from the beans you made. No extra water or broth of any kind. This method will result in the blackest most flavorful rice. You can also make this in a rice cooker. Just cook your sofrito in a small pan then add that and the black bean water, seasonings and rice to the rice cooker. Also I don’t pre soak my black beans because once you add water to them and let them soak they will not produce the darkest bean water possible. I figured this out after lots of trial and error. The Cuban restaurants I visit in my hometown of Miami always have this same dark black rice Moro and mine always came out gray not like restaurant quality but with this recipe it now comes out perfect.
