help I want a home made baked bean recipe

[pookstermum]

Hi, I want a home made baked bean recipe, but can't find one anywhere. Any ideas, have heard that it is easy to make, but didnt have the brain to ask the person how!!!!!

Buy dried beans (haricot probably). Soak them overnight and boil them as directed on the packet.
Fry up onions and garlic,add the beans,copious amounts of tomato puree,bay leaves and something sweet like honey,brown sugar or molasses,and bits of pork belly or some sort of good dried sausage (if you waqnt meat.)
Simmer gently for a couple of hours,adding water as necessary.

That's what I do,as I despise tinned baked beans with a passion.

thank you, I will give it a go. How much puree? should it look runny like the shop bought ones?

If you're doing 500g of beans (which,after they're soaked will be a lot) I'd use at least a jar of puree. Don't think there's any wrong.right way as long as you cook it for at least a couple of hours. As you like it.
(You may have a recipe for cassoulet lurking somewhere,which is essentially beans with meat.)

very very impressive moondog, I'm going to do that. THe beans over here, even the Heinz ones with "English style recipe" are vile.

I miss my Hienz cold and straight from the tin

bleeuuuurghhhhhhh suzy!!!!!

If you use adried sausage thing,don't add it add the frying onion stages,as it seems to leach the flavour,leaving you with strange little pieces of rubber! Add them at the bubbling-away-quite-nicely stage.

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Gary Rhodes did a lovely recipe, hand on, will google.

don't get me started on Gary Rhodes, the big ponce

Ingredients
1 small onion, chopped
4 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp tomato puree
½ a small apple, chopped
1 tsp mixed herbs
½ tsp mustard powder
1 tin haricot beans, drained
1 tsp brown sugar
150ml water
Method
Fry the onion in a splash of oil until soft. Add the tomatoes, the tomato puree, the apple and the water and reduce down by boiling for 5 minutes.
Add the herbs and mustard powder, mix well and leave to cool for a few minutes.
Whizz the mixture in a blender and then put it back in the pan along with the beans and cook on a low heat for 5 minutes.
Add the sugar, stir well and serve.

Hello Suzy, he does faff about doesn't he? Has Purpleturtle landed yet?

well that seemed rather innocuous are you sure it was him?

no, and she's gone a bit quiet actually. When are you coming back to the West?

Couldn't find Gazza's recipe, that one was from one of the Can't- be-arsed-Ready-steady-Saturday-Kitchen gang.
We are saving up - hopefully next year.

oh hurrah, come in april or October, that's the best months, but you like the heat though donn't you

No, October would be perfect - We were there in September last time - was raining and chilly in Perth!

sorry pookstermum for hijacking your thread. Suzy and I should learn to take this outside.

or we should MSN
do you?

thanks for the recipes, not started a thread before all very exciting(think i may need to get out more!!)

Am at work Suzy, shouldn't even be here, so no MSN. Not sure at home - used to have on ancient laptop, have Mac computer now and just about to get broadband sorted out, dial-up is so slow once you have had broadband. I will let you know when I am sorted out and we can natter at more convenient times.

Did the baked beans tonight, DD loved them so thank you.

Which recipe did you use? moondog's sounds good, but a faff if you haven't soaked the beans.

Its not a faff to soak,promise! Just dump em into water overnight!
It is so much cheaper buying pulses like this,and they taste better.

tried yours Gingerbear, will do moondog's after I do the shop at the weekend, now all I need to do is put them in a tin so that my very fussy ss will eat them too! PS the dog loved DD left over beans, not sure we will love the dog later!

agree on soaking moondog, especially chick peas - they are just not the same out of a can.
pookstermum - your dog will be jet propelled!

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