Dehydrated refried beans in a 1.86 lb (29.77 oz) pouch. Add boiling water, cover, and stir once the flakes have taken up the water — that's the whole method.

These are bean flakes rather than a canned paste, which is why they rehydrate so quickly and why a single pouch goes so much further than a tin. Smooth texture, so they work as a dip base as well as a side or a filling. Three ingredients, no preservatives, no artificial colours or flavours.

One pouch makes roughly 21 half-cup servings — about the yield of five or six standard tins, in something that stores dry on a shelf.

This is the traditional recipe, made with lard, so it is not vegetarian. Santiago make a separate vegetarian line and we stock it. Santiago states this product is gluten free.