🇬🇹 Guatemalan Cuisine

Frijoles Volteados

Guatemalan Refried Black Beans

Prep Time 10 min

Servings 6

Difficulty Easy

Calories 187 kcal

Silky-smooth black beans mashed and fried with onion until thick enough to hold a spoon upright, the foundation of every Guatemalan breakfast plate.

Ingredients

3 cups cooked black beans with their liquid
1 onion, finely diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt to taste

Instructions

1 Heat oil in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Sauté onion and garlic until golden.
2 Add cooked beans with their liquid. Mash with a potato masher, leaving some texture.
3 Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, for 15-20 min until thick and the beans pull away from the pan.
4 The beans are ready when you can "flip" them — volteados means "flipped."
5 Season with salt. Serve hot as a side or spread on tortillas.

Did You Know?

The name volteados means "flipped" — a skilled cook can flip the entire bean mass in the pan like a pancake, and this is considered a rite of passage.