On 07/14/2013 02:32 PM, bigwheel wrote:
> Best way to thicken up thin
> juice is to remove a cup or two of cooked beans and mash em up and
> return to the pot. Canned beans work good for this too..and give a
> little layer of flavor which is hard to duplicate..but to be au naturale
> and not cheat..just mash up some beans and throw em back in there. Now
> real Mexicans will sometimes throw a hunk of light bread in there to
> thicken them up


That is actually pretty cleaver mashing them up and
returning them to the pot.

How do you guys get away with all the carbs in
beans?

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...roducts/4313/2

1 cup of pinto beans is 37 grams. I would blow
my carb count for a meal at 1/3 cup.

-T