>>6493343Mm, I've never had the chance to work with dried beans yet but I imagine they would have to boil for a long time to get it back to being soft. Sofrito, recaito, olives, cooking ham, and tosino are what I add to my beans, in a base of tomato sauce. You cook the ham and tosino in the pan on a low flame to have to start making a bit of oil, add two parts sofrito for 2 part recaito, however many scoops of olives together and stir. You can even add potatoes to this if you dice them up, they boil really well in the sauce(add the can of tomato sauce first) and once all of this is going for maybe 30 mins of stirring and heat, you add the beans and let cook for another hour or so