Colorado Proud - of Beans

Colorado Proud - of Beans

Maura Bennett
Maura Bennett
Each month the Colorado Department of Agriculture and it's Colorado Proud Program to highlight an item that's locally grown or produced to feature in a specially created recipe.

In March Colorado Proud is featuring dry edible beans.

Colorado Department of Agriculture Marketing Specialist Wendy Lee White tells Colorado Ag Today they've put a "Campfire Beans" recipe on line at www.Coloradoproud.org that features pinto beans.

Campfire Beans. It's made in a dutch oven. It's got bacon and onion and beans and seasoning as well as a little sweetness with some dark brown sugar and apple cider. Colorado is really well known for our pinto beans. We do grow a wide variety of beans including pinto, light red kidney, yellow, black, red but pinto is what we're really known for. We've got excellent color as well as taste in our beans."

White says natives know pinto beans are the king of beans in the Centennial State.

The Campfire Beans recipe is from Chef Jason Morse of 5280 Culinary.

White says Colorado Proud will also be part of the next Eat Colorado Food Show later this month. Eat Colorado brings diverse food and beverage producers together with buyers from restaurants, grocers, hospitals, and school systems to name a few. It's a chance for the groups to connect and introduce new products.

The Food Show this year will showcase Colorado produce, grains, meats, preserves, condiments, honey, spirits, wines, beers, baked goods.

Sustainability and strengthening communities through food are on the agenda at the National Western Complex in Denver.

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