Baked Beans

Name: Baked Beans
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 240 g tinned cannellini beans; 150 g tinned chopped tomatoes; a pinch of ground cumin; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 bay leaf; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; ½ small onion, finely diced; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; a pinch of ground nutmeg; a pinch of oregano; 1 tsp paprika; a pinch of ground cinnamon; 240 g tinned red kidney beans; 240 g tinned butter beans

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Brunch with Brother Marcus

By Tasos Gaitanos and Alex Large

Published 2023

About

These are so much tastier than shop-bought baked beans! We always have them on the menu as everyone loves them. You could use dried beans here, but it’s much easier to use tinned, the unsung heroes of the larder. They taste just as good and you can make this in a fraction of the time.

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil
½ small onion, finely diced
1 garlic clove, finely chopped

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish
Vegan
Gluten-free
London

Method

Preheat your oven to 180°C fan. Put the oil and onion in a large, ovenproof pot and sweat for 5 to 10 minutes over a medium heat until the onion is translucent. Add the chopped garlic and bay leaf, then turn the heat down to low and cook for another 5 minutes. Be careful not to burn th