Spinach and butter bean stew on bruschetta with truffle oil

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a lunchtime main course
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Vegetables: The new food heroes

By Peter Gordon

Published 2007

  • About

Bruschetta hails from Italy, and it’s really just toast with garlic and olive oil rubbed into it. Simple as that sounds, it’s a satisfying thing, much in the way that toast itself is. The stew is very simple to knock up, and if you don’t have butter beans, then just use any beans you have in the cupboard – even baked beans would work! You can cook your beans from scratch, it will just take a lot longer. If you don’t have truffle oil – and don’t despair if you don’t – then drizzle with the b