Bean Pie

Ingredients

• 1 pound porotos / frejoles (dried beans)
• butter
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 cup milk
• tocino fresco (fresh salt pork / bacon)
• 2 tablespoons pure olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• 1 clove garlic, ground
• hojaldra (puff pastry), very thin
• butter

Instructions

1. Soak a pound of beans in cold water for ten hours.
2. Remove the skins, wash the beans, give them a boil, and grind them in the mortar.
3. Put the mash in a deep dish with a piece of butter and beat in a tablespoon of flour and a cup of milk.
4. Fry fresh salt pork in small pieces, mix into the mash, and beat again while adding two tablespoons of pure olive oil; season with salt, pepper and a ground garlic clove.
5. Grease a mold or baking dish with butter, keeping a thick layer of butter in the bottom, and pour in the mash.
6. Lay a very thin hojaldra over the top and bake until the pastry has browned.