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Bean Griddlecakes

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Mark Bittman
Feb 11, 2018
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Kid tested, budget approved. (Photo: Daniel Meyer)

These are delicious and wildly inexpensive. As is true for any bean dish, starting with dried beans that you cook yourself is more flavorful and cheaper, but canned are completely fine, and you can use any kind you like. You roughly mash the cooked beans and make what basically amounts to a thick pancake…

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