Borlotti beans

[lazarou]

I have a can, but no idea what to put them with. Any ideas?

what else have you got and is it for a main course or a side dish?

A main meal. I have vegetables, tinnned tomatoes, chicken, pasta, onions, peppers, minced beef, eggs, potatoes

Make into a salad with chopped feta, tomato & red onion on a bed of spinach/mixed leaves.

For the dressing, a little garlic, tsp honey, juice of half a lemon, olive oil. Drizzle over the salad & have with crusty bread.

you have a mighty pie on your hands

sweat off the onions and peppers in olive oil, add a grated and garlic if you have it, brown the minced beef in the oil, add some aromatics like chili or paprika and some worcester sauce ideally. Season to taste and cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Put the potatoes on to mash. Add a bit of sugar to balance the tomatoes' acidity, the beans. Assemble cottage pie type dish and bake in oven.

Or if it's above 15 degrees in Blighty, do what cyanrasamba says and have a salad.

Thanks, I was going to make a cottage pie anyway, so will just add them to that.

extra protein

they are spectacular added to minestrone soup in the final stage of cooking

Do you have a good recipe for minestrone Suzy?

the Jamie minestrone from easy Living was quite good
[rummages]
damn, it's at home

he's done several minestrone variations though - have a google

Cheers, mrsB

you need to start with the classic sofrito of finely chopped onions celery and carrots, sweat them for15 mins in good olive oil, season with salt and pepper at the end, then turn the heat up a little and add crushed garlic and cubed pancetta or bacon and stir well to prevent sticking.
Then add more oil and strain a can of chopped tomatoes, reserving the juice. You are going to add the drained tomatoes to the pan to melt them in the oil, takes about 5 mins, stir. Add a splash of red wine or balsamic vinegar and cook off for 2 mins. Then add your other veg: courgettes, beans peas sliced savoy cabbage or silver beet, borlotti beans and their liquor and more pepper and a good pinch of herbs, dried are fine but make sure there is oregano in the mix.
Add the juice from the tomatoes and ideally same volume again of passata, put lid on and cook for 5 mins. Add pasta, I usually do broken spaghetti or linguine, cook for further 5 minutes. Turn off heat, stir in a good splash of cream, Serve with grated parmesan.

Yum

sorry that should be cook for 15 not 5 mins after you added the veg and beans.

Do you want quantities?

Thanks Suzy, that sounds really nice. I'll have to get a few more ingredients. Don't worry about quantites, I normally just chuck in what I think.