Add pork strips and stir-fry until browned ... Sauté garlic and ginger for 1 minute. Stir in black bean sauce and heat through. Add stock and pepper; simmer for 3 to 4 minutes.

When buying the pork spare ribs, have the butcher cut them ... marinate at room temperature for about 30 minutes. Put the black beans in a small bowl, add 30ml (2tbsp) of warm water and leave ...

To make them, vendors reached into buckets of freshly ground masa, pulled out hunks of dough, patted them into disks, and stuffed them with a smear of refried beans, salty requesón cheese ...

Black bean sauce comes in jars, cans and vacuum packs and is sometimes flavoured with garlic, ginger, chillies or spices. Do not use black bean sauce interchangeably with yellow bean sauce ...

This collection of our best, brothiest recipes celebrates ... Dried cannellini beans give plenty of richness and flavor to this ultra-savory soup, which is also packed with pork and hearty ...

This recipe is a personal favorite ... Slow-cooked mojo pork over vibrant green rice and black beans, finished with grilled ...

Cornbread. All you need to turn this recipe into a real meal is a large hunk of cornbread. Try crumbling a part of the cornbread into the beans to soak up some of the liquid. Grilled sausages ...

The soaking liquid will have plenty of flavour, and is often included in the recipe ... sauce or clams with black bean sauce. They're used more subtly in twice-cooked pork, and a fusion dish ...

Once aromatic, after 1 minute, stir in pork and sauté, breaking up large pieces, until no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Stir in stock, oyster sauce, chile-garlic sauce and black bean sauce.

While many Cuban black bean recipes call for a ham hock, this one is vegetarian. Start with dry beans (no, you can’t substitute canned beans this time). Some bean devotees say soaking is ...