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Cowboy Beans
Course Main course
Place of origin United States
Region or state American Southwest
Serving temperature Hot
Main ingredients Beans (usually pinto, black-eyed), onion powder, ketchup, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, black pepper, milk, flour
Lamb Chops With Guajillo Chili Sauce and Charro Beans
Lamb chops with guajillo chili sauce and charro beans. Frijoles charros, or "cowboy beans", is a traditional Mexican dish. The dish is characterized by pinto beans stewed with onion, garlic, and bacon.

Cowboy beans (also known as chuckwagon beans) is a bean dish popular in the southwestern United States. The dish consists of pinto beans and ground beef in a sweet and tangy sauce. Other types of meat can be used. The flavor is similar to baked beans but with a southwestern twist. Although cowboy appears in the name, the use of canned beans, ketchup, and barbecue sauce means the dish is unlike anything ranch hands would have eaten in the 19th century. Cowboy beans are served stewed or baked, depending on the recipe.

It is unclear how cowboy beans got their name or where they originated from. They are easy to prepare and variations on the recipe are available on the Internet and in cookbooks and cooking magazines. Cowboy beans use many of the same ingredients as chili con carne with a very different taste.

Cowboy beans is a staple food in Texas.

Ingredients

Dinner @ Ole's Big Game Steakhouse
Cowboy beans (bottom-left) accompanying a steak dinner

A typical recipe might include:

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