Soak the butter beans overnight. Boil rapidly in fresh water with 2 celery sticks with leaves, 5 peppercorns, 1 carrot and then simmer for approx an hour. Make the tomato sauce with 2 onions, 5-6 cloves garlic fried in olive oil and add either fresh tomatoes or tinned, (if fresh, puree in a blender first), tomato puree, parsley and salt and pepper. Spoon cooked beans into an oven dish, pour tomato sauce over them and then sliced tomatoes. Bake in oven for an hour or so until the sauce has thickened.
These are great just eaten alone with a fresh buttered baguette, feels like it should cost a lot more than around 50p per portion to £1 depending on quality of ingredients and what you have growing in your allotment/garden.
Butter Beans (or any other large beans) with Chard
Chard is incredibly easy to grow and will look after itself for up to 4 years.
Just soak the butter beans over night. Boil rapidly in fresh water and then simmer for about an hour. Add the chard right at the end and serve drizzled with olive oil, rock salt, thinly sliced garlic and some vinegar. Best eaten with bread and butter and some olives
Appox. 30p per portion? Tastes amazing.
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