Cuban Refried Beans

Description: Serve with chips, or toasted white bread or fill a tortilla, burrito, mixed with chili meat or Cuban picadillo and guacamole, or eat with white or yellow rice.

Ingredients:

• 1 (15 1/2 ounce) can small white beans or 1 (15 1/2 ounce) can preferably cannellini beans
• 1/2 medium onion, chopped
• 2 pressed garlic cloves
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 spanish chorizo, fried and crumbled
• salt and pepper

Steps:

1. Bring beans to a boil in a saucepan.
2. Strain liquid and discard.
3. Loosely mash beans with a fork.
4. Fry and crumble Spanish Chorizo. Discard fat.
5. Fry onion till translucent.
6. Fry garlic in olive oil.
7. Stir in onion, garlic, olive oil, chorizos and salt/pepper.
8. Return to saucepan and over low heat stir until heated thoroughly.