Posted on September 05, 2017 by Kate Halsall

homemade baked bean recipe

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You may have recently read my food blog. In it I shared my Sunday big breakfast as homemade baked beans, oven roasted mushrooms and garlic spinach. Well here’s my delicious recipe for the homemade baked beans. It’s dead easy and only takes around 25 minutes. We use butter beans instead of haricot or cannellini and I think that the texture of butterbeans combined with a thicken tomato sauce really makes this dish.

Ingredients

  • 1tsp oil
  • 2/3 beef tomatoes, roughly chopped
  • 1 x 400g tin of butter beans, drained
  • 2 or 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary
  • Red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar

Instructions

  1. Get the oil nice and hot in the pan
  2. Add the tomatoes to the pan and simmer until they start to break down (approx. 5 minutes)
  3. Add the butter beans and keep simmering for another 5 minutes, then reduce heat for 10 minutes or until the liquid starts to reduce
  4. Add a good splash of vinegar and season the beans. Cook for a further 5 minutes
  5. Sprinkle over the rosemary and cook for a few more minutes before serving.

If the sauce isn’t “tomatoey” enough for you, try adding some sundried tomato paste or simply tomato puree. You don’t have to keep this recipe veggie if you don’t want to. You could add an egg towards to end and cook it into the beans. There is also a similar Jamie Oliver recipe that adds bacon into his beans.