If you love having homemade food ready to grab from the pantry, these spicy pinto beans are a must-try! They are flavorful, hearty, and already seasoned, making them one of those pantry staples that can make mealtime so much easier.
There’s something especially convenient about opening a jar of homemade beans and having a delicious side dish ready in minutes. These beans have a wonderful spicy, savory flavor that makes them perfect for so many different meals.
A Great Pantry Staple
Pinto beans are inexpensive, filling, and incredibly versatile. Canning them yourself means you can have them ready whenever you need them without having to soak and cook a batch of dry beans every time.
I love having jars of these spicy beans on the shelf for busy days. They make a quick side dish when served with rice, and they’re absolutely delicious with tortilla chips. You can also use them as a filling for tacos and burritos or add them to your favorite Mexican-inspired meals.
And don’t forget about chili! A jar of these preseasoned pinto beans is an easy way to add extra flavor and heartiness to a pot of chili.
So Many Ways to Use Them
These beans are delicious enough to enjoy all by themselves, but they can also become the starting point for an entire meal.
Try serving them alongside rice, using them in burrito bowls, adding them to tacos, or spooning them over nachos. You can mash them for homemade refried beans or stir them into soups and chili.
They’re also wonderful for those nights when you need something simple. Heat up a jar, add your favorite toppings, and you have an easy, satisfying meal or side dish.
Perfect for Homemade Food Storage
One of my favorite things about canning is knowing that I have homemade food waiting in the pantry. These spicy pinto beans are especially handy because they’re already seasoned and ready to use.
Pinto beans are a low-acid food, so they must be pressure canned using a tested canning method. They should not be processed using a water-bath canner.
For the complete ingredients, measurements, and pressure-canning instructions, be sure to check out the printable recipe card below.
Once you have a few jars of these spicy pinto beans on your pantry shelf, you’ll wonder how you ever did without them!
They’re inexpensive, delicious, and incredibly useful—and sometimes the best pantry staples are the ones that make dinner just a little bit easier.
How to Can Spicy Pinto Beans for Your Pantry
These flavorful, preseasoned beans are perfect for Mexican dishes, rice, chips, tacos, chili, and more.
Ingredients
- 1-2 lb dry pinto beans
Spice Mix Per Pint Jar:
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1/4 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp dried, minced onion
Instructions
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Place dried beans in a large pot or bowl and cover with water.
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Soak 12 to 18 hours in a cool place. Drain water. OR
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To quickly hydrate beans, you may cover sorted and washed beans with boiling water in a saucepan. Boil 2 minutes, remove from heat, soak 1 hour and drain.
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Cover beans soaked by either method with fresh water and boil 30 minutes. Some choose to avoid this step and instead fill their jars with the hydrated beans, spice mix and fresh water.
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Add spice mix to each cleaned pint jar.
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Fill jars, 3/4 full with beans and add cooking water to 1-inch headspace.
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Pressure can pints for 75 minutes and quarts for 90 minutes.
Recipe Notes
Quantity: An average of 5 lbs of dry beans is needed per canner load of 7 quarts. An average of 3 1/4 lbs is needed per canner load of 9 pints- an average of 3/4 lbs per quart.
1 lb of pinto beans this will yield about 4 pints. 2 lbs of pinto beans this will yield about 8 pints.
Quality: Always sort your beans and remove any rocks, stones, pebbles, or poor quality beans.
