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Rich in proteins and fibers, beans are one of the most popular ingredients in our kitchen nowadays. Patience is the main secret for cooking them properly.
Best results are achieved if they are cooked at a low temperature for a long period of time.
With time on our hands, the possibilities are endless.
Their broad variety makes beans the main ingredient for many traditional dishes and also the guest-star for top Michelin Chefs.
Let’s see what we can do with cooked beans!
We have One recipe that will expand into three other recipes.
One part will be dedicated to a vegan baked beans recipe, the second part for the famous chili con carne and last but not least, a delicious English breakfast!
We start with a plant-only based recipe that is a wonderful main course for people embracing a vegan lifestyle, people fasting or people who enjoy a dish full of proteins, fibers and flavor.
A plate of warm baked beans.
The basic recipe combines white beans with homegrown Borlotti beans.
As per our grandmother’s advice, Tarragon and Bay leaves are used for seasoning, enhancing the flavor of the beans.
Chili con carne, the famous Mexican dish, is a spicy stew prepared with beans, tomatoes, minced meat and of course the chili!
Quick to make and rich in flavor, this is perfect for the cold autumn and winter days.
Canned kidney beans were added to acquire the so specific taste.
Seasoning with intense dark chocolate, it will spoil your tasting buds.
Should be served hot, with yogurt or creme-fraiche, seconded by a generous portion of Basmati rice.
The last recipe is the delicious English breakfast beans.
It’s always good to try something new, by cooking your own delicious beans.
These beans are so popular in the UK and Ireland, that many pubs offer them as an >all-day< breakfast.
Add two sausages, two bacon strips, two fried eggs, cheddar cheese, two baked half-tomatoes, plenty of pan-fried mushrooms, and two toast slices, to start your day full of energy.
Hope you will enjoy making them as much as we did.
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Baked Beans (main ingredient)
Chili con Carne
Serving Size 4 (baked beans)
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 67
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 0g
- Saturated Fat 0g
- Trans Fat 0g
- Cholesterol 0mg
- Sodium 285mg12%
- Potassium 536mg16%
- Total Carbohydrate 15.8g6%
- Dietary Fiber 5.3g22%
- Sugars 6.6g
- Protein 3.4g7%
- Vitamin A 0%
- Vitamin C 0%
- Calcium 5%
- Iron 10%
- Vitamin D 0%
- Vitamin E 0%
- Vitamin K 0%
- Thiamin 0%
- Riboflavin 0%
- Niacin 0%
- Vitamin B6 0%
- Folate 0%
- Pantothenic Acid 0%
- Phosphorus 0%
- Selenium 0%
- Manganese 0%
- Chromium 0%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Baked beans (main recipe)
Step 1: - boil the beans. Once the beans start to boil, replace the water and start boiling again. Repeat this process 3 times. This will reduce the beans after effects, if you know what I mean 🙂
Once the beans are boiled don't throw the water. We will use the water later in the process.
Step 2: - chop the carrots into small pieces
Step 3: - chop the onions into small pieces. Chop both onions so that you have them ready for Chili con Carne as well.
Step 4: - Get a pan that fits 500 grams of beans plus the tomatoes, tomato juice, carrots and the onion.
Start with frying one onion and the garlic using 2 tablespoons of oil. Fry them for about 3 minutes until the onion changes colour a bit.
Step 5: - add the carrots and fry for 2 more minutes. Keep stirring the mix.
Step 6: - add the beans to the mix and keep mixing.
Step 6: - after 2-3 minutes add the tomatoes, the tomato juice and keep mixing
Step 7: - add the condiments (tarragon, bay leaves, pepper and salt) and keep mixing
Step 8: - add the water used the 3rd time during beans boiling process. Keep steering and frying.
Step 9: - before moving to the next step, we will save some beans for Chili con Carne
Step 10: - now we'll be moving to the oven area. Let's put some oil in a cooking plate, spread it so it covers the bottom and the sides
Step 11: - add some bay leaves
Step 12: - transfer the beans from the frying pan to the pan that we will use to put the mix in the oven
Step 13: - put the mix in the oven at 160 degrees Celsius (320 Fahrenheit)
Step 14: - now we have baked beans that can be served as they are fresh out of the oven with pickles for example.
We can stop here, or we can do something even better with the beans.
Chili con Carne
Step 1 (b): - put 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan. Use a frying pan big enough for the 500g of beef meat.
Step 2 (b): - put the second chopped onion into the frying pan. Fry the onions until they start changing the colour.
Step 3 (b): - add the beef meat and continue to fry.
Step 4 (b): - add the condiments and continue to stir and mix
Step 5 (b): - add the tomatoes
Step 6 (b): - add the tomato juice
Step 6 (b): - add the chili and keep mixing while you fry the mixture
Step 7 (b): - add the white beans that we saved at step9 and keep mixing
Step 8 (b): - add the red beans and keep mixing
Step 9 (b): - add the garlic and keep mixing
Step 10 (b): - now, we enhance even more (if that's even possible) the taste for Chili con Carne by adding the dark chocolate!
There you have it: Chili con Carne
English Breakfast
Step 1 (c): - we use the beans from step 14. Now let's fry some sausages (there should be 2 per portion)
Step 2 (c): - fry two eggs, add some cheddar cheese, two baked half-tomatoes, plenty of pan-fried mushrooms, and two toast slices, to start your day full of energy.
Ingredients
Baked Beans (main ingredient)
Chili con Carne
Directions
Baked beans (main recipe)
Step 1: - boil the beans. Once the beans start to boil, replace the water and start boiling again. Repeat this process 3 times. This will reduce the beans after effects, if you know what I mean 🙂
Once the beans are boiled don't throw the water. We will use the water later in the process.
Step 2: - chop the carrots into small pieces
Step 3: - chop the onions into small pieces. Chop both onions so that you have them ready for Chili con Carne as well.
Step 4: - Get a pan that fits 500 grams of beans plus the tomatoes, tomato juice, carrots and the onion.
Start with frying one onion and the garlic using 2 tablespoons of oil. Fry them for about 3 minutes until the onion changes colour a bit.
Step 5: - add the carrots and fry for 2 more minutes. Keep stirring the mix.
Step 6: - add the beans to the mix and keep mixing.
Step 6: - after 2-3 minutes add the tomatoes, the tomato juice and keep mixing
Step 7: - add the condiments (tarragon, bay leaves, pepper and salt) and keep mixing
Step 8: - add the water used the 3rd time during beans boiling process. Keep steering and frying.
Step 9: - before moving to the next step, we will save some beans for Chili con Carne
Step 10: - now we'll be moving to the oven area. Let's put some oil in a cooking plate, spread it so it covers the bottom and the sides
Step 11: - add some bay leaves
Step 12: - transfer the beans from the frying pan to the pan that we will use to put the mix in the oven
Step 13: - put the mix in the oven at 160 degrees Celsius (320 Fahrenheit)
Step 14: - now we have baked beans that can be served as they are fresh out of the oven with pickles for example.
We can stop here, or we can do something even better with the beans.
Chili con Carne
Step 1 (b): - put 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan. Use a frying pan big enough for the 500g of beef meat.
Step 2 (b): - put the second chopped onion into the frying pan. Fry the onions until they start changing the colour.
Step 3 (b): - add the beef meat and continue to fry.
Step 4 (b): - add the condiments and continue to stir and mix
Step 5 (b): - add the tomatoes
Step 6 (b): - add the tomato juice
Step 6 (b): - add the chili and keep mixing while you fry the mixture
Step 7 (b): - add the white beans that we saved at step9 and keep mixing
Step 8 (b): - add the red beans and keep mixing
Step 9 (b): - add the garlic and keep mixing
Step 10 (b): - now, we enhance even more (if that's even possible) the taste for Chili con Carne by adding the dark chocolate!
There you have it: Chili con Carne
English Breakfast
Step 1 (c): - we use the beans from step 14. Now let's fry some sausages (there should be 2 per portion)
Step 2 (c): - fry two eggs, add some cheddar cheese, two baked half-tomatoes, plenty of pan-fried mushrooms, and two toast slices, to start your day full of energy.
