Sooo much pooping

[Lesley]

As promised......

 

This recipe is from 'Preserved' by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton. It is in the section on Bottling and Canning but I don't have any of the equipment for that so I freeze them in either 8oz jamjars or in 500g yoghurt pots - just leave some head space to allow for the freezing. The recipe uses haricot beans but I use dried borlotti beans as I like growing them. I have also used the dried Ying Yang beans, children love the patterned beans!

 

You could scale the recipe down if you don't have freezer space, but as it is time consuming to cook both the sauce and the beans it's worth making in bulk.

 

You need to soak the beans overnight. You could use 6 cans of tomatoes instead of fresh tomatoes.

Baked Beans

 

The Beans

500g dried haricot beans - soak in plenty of cold water overnight.

 

The Sauce

3 kg of ripe tomatoes, chopped

150ml cider vinegar

10 cloves or 2 level tsps. ground cloves

4 green cardamom pods

Half tsp ground white pepper

Half tsp ground mace

Half tsp ground allspice

Half tsp ground cinnamon

2 tsps paprika

150g sugar

4 cloves garlic, chopped

25g sun-dried tomatoes, chopped

 

Bring the soaked beans to the boil in slightly salted water and boil furiously for 10 minutes (very important)

Simmer the beans for a couple of hours until soft. Drain and reserve.

 

Simmer all the sauce ingredients for 2-3 hours until reduced by at least 25%.

Pass the mixture through a food mill or sieve. This will yield about 1.6kg of sauce.

 

Pack the beans into jars/cartons about three quarters full and then add sauce, leaving headspace of 2.5cm.

 

Label and freeze.

 

You can play around with the spices to your taste - I always add more cinnamon and cloves.

[Chucky Mama]

Hmm, interesting

[missuscluck]

Thanks Lesley!!

I am still here (lurking )

Sonds really good. Ill give it a go

[Lewis]

If we get any borlotti beans we'll be trying this

[chickencam]

Thanks Lesley.

 

We have loads of beans this year, so I will be looking for ways to use them and preserve them.