Quick & Healthy Meal

One of my boys favorite meals is home made baked beans. I make them at least once a month and usually have a spare children’s serve stashed in the freezer for a weekend or Friday night dinner. This recipe was originally inspired by a Jamie Oliver recipe. I tend to modify it every time I make it now by adding different vegetables, depending what I have available to use from the vegetable garden.

Home made baked beans make a fabulous Winter breakfast served on crusty fresh bread, with an egg on top and some fresh baby spinach leaves. My children also like to eat these beans with pasta. The serving size is generous, I generally freeze a serve to have as a back up quick meal or a work lunch for Mr Fresh.

Home Made Baked Beans

Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

30 mins

Total time

40 mins

Healthy home made baked beans. A wholesome Winter breakfast recipe. Add on fresh spinach, an egg, or feta if you wish.

Author: Kyrstie Barcak - A Fresh Legacy

Recipe type: Main

Serves: 6

Ingredients

Dash of olive oil
4 garlic cloves finely chopped
1 tin of 400 gm tinned tomatoes (or passata if you make your own)
1 carrot diced
½ sweet potato - peeled and diced
1 small eggplant - peeled and diced
1 can of Organic Cannellini Beans - 400 grams
1 can of Organic Chick Peas or Butter Beans - 400 grams
1 can of Organic Red Kidney Beans - 400 grams
1 teaspoon sumac
3 sprigs of fresh parsley
3 sprigs of fresh thyme
500 ml (2 cups) of good quality vegetable stock - or chicken stock if you prefer
salt and pepper to season
Fresh spinach leaves to serve
Crusty sour dough bread to serve

Instructions

Put a dash of olive oil into a warm pan and add the garlic
Stir until fragrant and add the tinned tomatoes and diced vegetables
Rinse and drain the beans and add to the pan
Add the herbs, and sumac, season and simmer for 30 minutes until the liquid has reduced by ⅓
Serve with crusty bread and fresh spinach leaves

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Are they “baked” beans? I’m not sure? They are not baked but that’s what we call them here at our place.

*Updated format and images 15/05/2015

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Rhianna says:

February 28, 2012 at 3:19 pm

yum! they look like the best baked beans ever! I wish my kids would eat beans like this. Two would but the one that wouldn’t would also be able to convince the others to do the same. Sigh.