Bacon Beans on Toast

Recipe by: Michelle Darmody

Beans are really nutritious - they are also a sustainable food choice which is handy and affordable.

Bacon Beans on Toast

SERVES

4

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

25

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

30

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 1 onion

  • 2 cloves garlic

  • 1 tbsp rapeseed oil

  • 1 tsp smoked paprika

  • 1 tsp mixed cake spice

  • 1 tin chopped tomatoes

  • 1 tsp honey

  • 2 tins cannellini beans

  • 4 streaky rashers

  • 8 slices bread

  • a knob butter

Method

  1. Carefully chop the onion into small cubes.

  2. Use a garlic crusher to crush the two cloves of garlic.

  3. Heat the rapeseed oil in a large saucepan over a low heat and add in the onion. Put on a lid and allow it to sweat until the pieces have started to go see through. Add in the garlic and stir the onion and garlic for a half a minute.

  4. Add in the paprika and spices and stir them in too. Now add the tin of tomatoes and the honey. Allow to bubble away slowly for ten minutes stirring occasionally.

  5. Use a soup gun or a liquidiser to blitz the sauce until it is smooth. Season the sauce with some salt and pepper.

  6. Ask and adult to open the tins of cannellini beans for you. Drain the liquid off the beans.

  7. You can divide the sauce in two, if you like, and put half of it in the fridge for another day. Put the sauce into a saucepan, then add the beans. Set aside.

  8. Carefully cut the rashers up into pieces that are about a centimetre each. Heat a small dash of oil in a pan and ask an adult to help you fry the pieces of rasher until they are crispy.

  9. Place the slices of bread into a toaster and toast them. When they are still warm butter them.

  10. Warm your beans over a low heat.

  11. Put two slices of bread on a plate and spoon your warmed beans on top. Sprinkle the rashers over the beans.

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