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Habichuelas Guisadas Recipes

Grandma’s stewed beans, red, pink, white, with sofrito and pumpkin.

Habichuelas guisadas are the other half of the binomial that defines the boricua plate: white rice + beans. Red, pink, white, or black, they’re all prepared with the same base, homemade sofrito, tomato sauce, achiote, calabaza (PR pumpkin), and sometimes potato or a touch of ham. The broth ends thick, dark, fragrant, served over freshly made white rice.

Don Luis has 44 habichuelas recipes, the version of each type, with traditional or quick sofrito, with or without calabaza, vegetarian or with pork. Each includes the exact cook time and sofrito proportion that separates memorable beans from ones that just get the job done.

All 44 of Don Luis’s habichuelas recipes

Why Don Luis

Part of a collection spanning 100+ years of family recipes across three generations, collected and tested over 30+ years in the kitchen. Some are the authentic traditional version and others are our own versions of the original. These habichuelas proportions and times are dialed in across three generations and 30+ years of daily cooking.