Soaking Dried Beans – Bean Bolognese – recipe

So soaked a load of beans, haricot, black beans and another for over 12 hours, but I reckon they’ve done most of absorbing by about 8, so can start soak of beans in morning and cook at night.

The haricot need soaking but reckon the other two benefited from being soaked.

So soaked 50g of each 150g in total, and after soaking the drained weight was 330g or so, so what looked like not many beans to start, became a hill of beans…

So that will feed four.

cover beans well with water, boil beans hard for 5 minutes then simmer for an hour or so. Drain a bit of boiling fluid but retain at least half.

1 small tin tomato puree
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1tsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1 veg stock cube. (lidl this time)

Add chilli powder, 1tsp or more and maybe 1tsp of cumin if you want a bean chilli!


1 onion chopped up small and fried to soften, then add above ingredients and bring to simmer, then add the beans and fluid and simmer for as long as it takes to boil some pasta…

realised when done I had forgotten the usual herb addition of 1-2tsp each of oregano and basil, and actually did not really miss it that much.

Nice!

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