Slow-Carb Red Beans

Slow-carb diet friendly. We eat this daily. Keep it in stock. I separate this into mini food storage containers and freeze for an easy side dish to reheat when I don’t have free time. Make sure to soak kidney beans the night before.

Step: 1

Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions; cook for 1 minute. Add peppers and garlic; cook until soft, about 10 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, paprika, chipotle, and turmeric. Cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.

Step: 2

Drain beans and add to the pot. Pour in enough chicken broth to cover beans. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring every 20 minutes and adding more broth if needed, until tender, about 2 hours.

Per Serving: 192 calories; protein 11.6g; carbohydrates 31.6g; fat 2.4g; cholesterol 4.8mg; sodium 1025.8mg.

The most clear way to choose a side dish is to caught at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and choose more different. If you’re cooking pasta, go for a simple vegetable . Made steak? Go for something light. If you’re making stir-fry with rice, it must not a best idea to adjust with make a rice salad.

This also can apply to cooking process . You don’t want to overcommit your oven by scheduling three dishes at once in there, or be rounding four pans on the stovetop . But often you can made a dish do double-duty .