Homemade Refried Beans

Refried beans are nowhere in Guyana. We’ve searched and searched looking for those little lard filled cans of love. One day we were getting desperate. We had beans, and we overcooked them and squished them into something that looked like refried beans (on accident, my bad I left it too long in the pressure pot (this is Tim btw)) but really it just wasn’t the same. So how can we make them? Necessity is truly the mother of invention.

Red Beans
4 or 5 cloves of chopped garlic
1 or 2 chopped onions
4 tbsp of oil (could be lard if you have any available)
Salt.

Soak the beans overnight or for about 6-8 hours. Pressure them for about 30 minute or boil them until they are edible and soft (maybe cook them longer if you want to mash them easier). Set the beans aside, but keep some of the water they were boiled in.
Put the oil in a kaharee or frying pan and heat.
Throw the onions into the oil and sauté until they are a bit brown.
Throw in the garlic, sauté.
Take some of the beans and place them in your pan or kaharee, mashing them with the back end of the serving spoon, mixing them with the garlic and onion. Pour in some of the water you used to boil the beans in, and then add more beans, mashing and stirring continually. (we don’t have non stick pans, so we need to constantly move the food around). Add salt to taste.
Continue to add beans until they get to the texture or look that you want or you run out of beans and Voila, refried beans!