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Black Bean Sopes

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  • Prep 15 min
  • Total 30 min
  • Ingredients 9
  • Servings 6
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If you like traditional Mexican foods such as tacos, tostadas, and huaraches, you’ll love sopes. Sopes are a typical Mexican dish consisting of a thick corn tortilla with a raised border for a delicious filling. Fillings for sopes range from shredded meat, beef or pork stews, to potatoes with chorizo or refried beans with cheese. Personally, I love sopes filled with beans and sprinkled with lots of Mexican fresh cheese topped with hot sauce.
by Leslie Limon
Updated Sep 20, 2016
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Ingredients

  • 3 slices of bacon, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1/4 cup red onion, finely diced
  • 3 cups cooked black beans
  • 1 cup bean broth
  • 1-1/2 cups vegetable oil (for frying)
  • Pre-made sope shells from the grocery store, enough for 6 servings
  • 1-1/2 cups Mexican fresh cheese, crumbled
  • 1 cup lettuce, finely chopped
  • 1 cup hot sauce

Directions

  • 1
    Fry the bacon in a medium skillet over medium-high heat until completely browned.
  • 2
    Add the diced onion and sauté for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the black beans and bean broth. Cook for 5 to 8 minutes or until mixture begins to boil.
  • 3
    Mash the beans with a potato masher; season with salt to taste. Cook for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the beans thicken up a bit. Remove from heat.
  • 4
    Heat vegetable oil in a deep skillet over high heat. Fry the sopes, 2 or 3 at a time, until golden.
  • 5
    Transfer sopes to a plate lined with paper towels to drain excess oil. Repeat this step until all of the sopes are fried.
  • 6
    To assemble the sopes, fill each sope with refried black beans. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the fresh cheese over the refried beans.
  • 7
    Garnish with chopped lettuce and hot salsa.
  • 8
    Serve 1 or 2 sopes per person, and enjoy!

Expert Tips

  • tip 1
    To add more color to your sopes, substitute lettuce with 1 cup of red cabbage.
  • tip 2
    Substitute black beans with pinto beans.

Nutrition Information

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More About This Recipe

  • If you like traditional Mexican foods such as tacos, tostadas, and huaraches, you’ll love sopes. Sopes are a typical Mexican dish consisting of a thick corn tortilla with a raised border for a delicious filling. Fillings for sopes range from shredded meat, beef or pork stews, to potatoes with chorizo or refried beans with cheese. Personally, I love sopes filled with beans and sprinkled with lots of Mexican fresh cheese topped with hot sauce.
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