Chipotle Bean Dip
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This chipotle bean dip is a delicious, healthy snack or side dish. It goes well with tortilla chips or veggie sticks for an easy appetizer.
This chipotle bean dip is an easy, healthy appetizer recipe. It’s a little spicy, very flavorful, and surprisingly addictive.
I cook beans from scratch for this recipe. Soaking the beans overnight with kombu helps to aid in digestion. Once the beans are cooked, this dip comes together quickly in a blender or food processor.
Chipotle Bean Dip Serving Suggestions
This chipotle bean dip is goes well with any sort of tortilla chips. It can also be served with carrots, celery, or other vegetable sticks. It makes a great filling for tacos, too.
Try my Instant Pot pinto beans and rice for another frugal, delicious recipe.
Recommended Equipment
Ingredients
Ingredients for cooking the beans
- 2 cups dry pinto or black beans
- 6 cups water
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 1 inch by 2 inch piece of kombu
- Salt to taste
Ingredients for the dip
- 2 cups cooked beans you will have a few cups of cooked beans left over for another recipe
- 1 tbs. sundried tomatoes
- 1 tbs. chopped shallot or other onion
- 1 tbs. olive oil
- 1 tsp. chipotle in adobo sauce
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1-2 tsp. water
Instructions
- Put the beans, the piece of kombu, and the 6 cups of water in a pot. Soak overnight for at least 12 hours.
- In the morning, remove the kombu and drain and rinse the beans. Place the beans and the kombu in a pot on the stove and add the broth and salt. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 90 minutes, checking periodically to see if the beans are tender.
- Drain the beans and remove the kombu.
- To make the dip, saute the shallot in the olive oil in a skillet over medium-low heat for 2 minutes, or until tender.
- In the bowl of a food processor or high-powered blender, place the beans, sundried tomatoes, shallot with oil, chipotle, and salt. Process until smooth. If it seems too dry, add water one teaspoon at a time until you reach the desired consistency.
- Serve with tortilla chips, vegetable strips, or as a filling for tacos.
Approximate Nutrition Info
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Homemade Beans Price Breakdown
Dry beans are so easy to prepare, and they’re much more affordable and tasty than their canned counterparts. At my Stop & Shop, I can buy a package of dry red beans for $1.39, and this package yields 10 cups of cooked beans. A can of cooked beans costs $1.19, and this is for 2 cups of beans.
Dry beans cost $.14 per cup of cooked beans.
Cooked canned beans cost $.60 for a cup.
Cooked beans in a can cost more than four times as much as dry beans.
With numbers like that, it makes a lot of sense to cook your own beans for this chipotle bean dip. And with a little piece of kombu, you won’t have to deal with the digestive issues that beans typically present.
This is really interesting! I’m interested in sea vegetables, but I really didn’t know where to start. I love the idea of adding them to beans.
Kelly, the kombu makes a huge difference, but you don’t taste it in the beans. Great place to start!
I’ve been out of the loop for a couple of weeks and am trying to get caught up on what everyone has been up to. One word of caution on cooking red beans…they contain a toxin and really should be boiled for at least 10 minutes to help destroy it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean Scroll down to the toxicity section. I use my crock to cook beans all the time but never red beans since discovering this. 🙂
Thanks for the heads up! That’s good to know.
I love this one! Spicy bean dip is my favorite.
Thank you! The chipotle gives it just the right kick.
I have never heard of kombu but now will seek it out. This is such a creative recipe – great to have you on board with Recipe ReDux!
Thank you! It’s always great to learn about new, nutritious ingredients.
I’ve only ever used kombu in miso soup. This is a very creative idea.
Thanks! It really does a great job.
I have some kombu great insights. Thanks so much! I will give it a try! 🙂
Great! I hope it works well for you.
Great idea! I never thought to use kombu in this way, but it sounds great! We keep kombu on hand for when I make dashi or nishime (Japanese veggie stew), it’s so good for you 🙂
I would love to branch out with kombu. Do you have any recipes on your site that use it? Maybe you could post the stew recipe.
I will post the nishime recipe, as soon as I get the ingredients together! 🙂
Can you get wakame at Whole Foods as well? It’s another seaweed that I use, often mixed in with my miso soup.
I cook beans frequently, but have never heard of kombu. Can you describe what it looks like? Am I likely to find it in an ethnic food store? I have heard that a fresh green herb called epozote (also found dried with other dried herbs and spices) can also help cut down the side effects of beans when cooked together.
I added a photograph of the kombu package at the bottom of my post. I purchased it at Whole Foods in the Asian section, and I’m guessing Asian markets would also carry it. The package has several dried (hard) pieces of seaweed about 4 inches by 6 inches each, so it lasts for quite a while since you only need a small piece for each batch of beans.
I love cooking my own beans, and didn’t know that konbu can help with the “side effects” of beans. I also like that it adds more vitamins & minerals into the beans, that’s great! 😀
It’s such an easy way to make the beans even better for you.
Your chipotle bean dip sounds great. I love the idea of adding a little sundried tomato to enhance the flavours of the chilli and the addition of kombu to the liquor you cooked the beans in is wonderful. I was wondering if the Kombu imparts any of it’s ozoney flavour to the beans or whether it’s just all the mineral goodness that gets transferred?
Thank you! The kombu doesn’t impart any particular flavor to the beans, just mineral goodness. It really does make a positive difference.