The Kentucky Kitchen Part 2. Classic Kentucky Recipes: Soup Beans

[scrumptiouschef]

Any Kentucky cooks out there that want to share their take on the Highlands region classic?

scrumptiouschef

[Coogles]

The way my Dad does it is to soak pinto beans over night, drain the soaking water, cover the beans with fresh water and cook with a chunk of jowl bacon until soft. Then season with salt and pepper and serve with diced onion and cornbread.

[LaLa]

me too except don't forget the chow chow!

[scrumptiouschef]

We always ate ours with picalilly which is a regional variation on chow chow.

Of course if you add just a smidge of ginger during the cooking process you can seriously reduce the gaseousnes of the beans.