Southern ‘Baked’ Beans with Smoked Ham

Name: Southern ‘Baked’ Beans with Smoked Ham
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 125 g/4½ oz/2/3 cup soft light brown sugar; 2 bay leaves, torn; cornbread or cooked American long-grain rice, to serve (optional); salt and freshly ground black pepper; chopped parsley leaves, to serve; 4 tbsp Vegetable Stock, ready-made stock or water; 800 g/1 lb 12 oz tinned borlotti beans or pinto beans, drained and rinsed; ½ tsp dried chilli flakes, or to taste; 1 bone-in smoked gammon hock, about 1.4 kg/3 lb 2 oz; 1 tbsp dried thyme; 1 onion, finely chopped; 400 g/14 oz/scant 12/3 cups tinned chopped tomatoes; 2 tsp ground cumin; 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

I Love My Slow Cooker

By Beverly LeBlanc

Published 2012

About

Ingredients

1 bone-in smoked gammon hock, about 1.4 kg/3 lb 2 oz

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Put the gammon hock in a large saucepan and cover with water. Cover with a lid and bring to the boil over a high heat.

Meanwhile, put the stock, chopped tomatoes, brown sugar, bay leaves, garlic, onion, thyme, cumin and chilli flakes in the slow cooker, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Season with salt and pepper, remembering the gammon might still be salty.

When the gammon water