Beans with Spaghetti (Porotos con riendas)

Get ready to savor the flavors of Chilean cuisine! This dish is a true gem, cherished in households throughout this beautiful country. Enjoy a hearty main course that will make your taste buds dance with joy. Don’t forget to pair it with a delicious side of longaniza or chorizo. In my own home, we eagerly looked forward to making this a weekly tradition. Embrace this culinary adventure and let your palate be enchanted. What are you waiting for? Let’s start cooking!

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Beans with Spaghetti (Porotos con riendas)

Porotos con tallarines.

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Prep Time 13 hours hrs

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 14 hours hrs

Course Main Course

Cuisine Chilean

Servings 6 people

Equipment

• Pressure Cooker, optional can also use a large pot.
• Skillet.

Ingredients

  

• 500 g beans (17,6 oz) (Turtledoveor white beans)
• 500 g Butternut squash (17,6 oz)
• 2 units Tomatoes.
• 1 unit Onion.
• Spaghetti noodles to taste.
• 1 tbsp olive oil.
• 1 tsp oregano.
• Salt to taste.

Instructions

 

• The night before or at least 12hours earlier, soak the beans in plenty of cold water. When it's time to cook, rinse the beans and put them in a pressure cooker (or pot). Add boiling waterand cook for 30 minutes until the beans are soft.
• Cut the butternut squash into chunksand add them to the pressure cooker (or pot), cook for 10 minutes.
  
• Meanwhile, you can prepare the sautéed mixture. For that, finely chop an onion into small cubes.
  
• Heat up a skillet with the olive oil and sauté the onion until it's soft and translucent.
  
• Grate the two tomatoes and add them to the previously sautéed onion.
  
• Along with oregano and salt to taste.
  
• Once the sautéed mixture is ready, set it aside.
  
• After the 10 minutes of cooking the butternut squash, take it out of the cooker and mash it in a bowl.
  
• Without covering the cooker, add the noodles that have been broken in half by hand and cook for 9 minutes.
  
• Mix in the sautéed mixture with themashed butternut squash in the cooker and stir. Once the noodles are cooked,turn off the cooker and let it sit for about 10 minutes before serving.
• Now it's time to dig in and enjoy!
  

Keyword beans, chileanfood, comida chilena, porotos, vegetarian, vegetariano