«Black turtle» - Organic Bean Seeds

The magnificent Mexican black turtle bean known as Tampico is especially popular in Latin American cuisine as well as in southern Louisiana.

This is an improved variety, obtained by selection in the cold conditions of Montana, and originally harvested in a village in Mexico.

Small black beans with a rich taste and fleshy structure due to their color are very rich in antioxidants.

This variety is grown as green beans, as the pods remain tender for a long time, but still its main purpose is a dry bean with high-quality grain.

This hardy bean ripens in the middle of the season. The blades are harvested after 60 days, and it takes about 100 days from seedlings to collect dry seeds. A semi-bush variety producing a sprawling bush about 90 cm high, and the pods are located high above the ground.

This haricot is well tolerated by heat, resistant to disease, very productive. It is advisable to support plants with a net or stakes, this will increase the yield.

Beans The Black Turtle is indispensable in many Mexican dishes, such as soups, burritos and vegetarian chilies.

The most popular dish in Brazil is called Feijoada, it is made from black beans and, as the Brazilians themselves say, there is nothing more Brazilian than black beans.

Black tortoise is also popular as an ingredient for soup. In Cuba, black bean soup is a traditional dish, usually served with white rice.

In Latin American cuisine, it is customary to store the boiled water of these beans (which turns black) and use it in the form of a soup with other ingredients for seasoning (known as sopa negra - black soup), as a broth (caldo de frigol - bean broth) or season with it and color other dishes.