This has an excellent spicy flavor and is a great filling meal. If goes great with cornbread (see my cornbread recipe). For a more healthy version you can use turkey bacon or cook the vegetarian/vegan version.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup of dried pinto beans
• 1 large jalapeno pepper, diced
• 4 pieces of cooked bacon, diced. (veg/vegan: Instead add 1 tsp smoked paprika instead of regular paprika)
• 1/2 pound lean hamburger (veg/vegan: Leave out, or use veggie crumbles)
• 1/2 of a large onion diced.
• 1 teaspoon of paprika
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ~1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

Directions

Soak beans overnight. Cook and dice bacon and then brown the hamburger add in onion an jalapeno and fry with the hamburger for about 3-4 minutes. Add beans into pot with hamburger and cover with 1/2 inch of water cook for about 2 hours. Now add in the bacon, salt, pepper, and paprika and cook for another hour till beans are starting to split.