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Tangy Bean Pate
This tangy bean pate is made using baked beans.
The beans can be changed for a tin of anything else, butter beans, white beans, green lentils, mixed spicy beans, chickpeas etc
Make twice in the month, if following option one or once if following option 2 – allow 25 g per person per meal and 2 slices of home made bread
tangy bean pate
Equipment
- saucepan
- mixing spoon
- digital scales
Ingredients
- 1 can baked beans
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- 1 dessertspoon lemon juice
- 100 ml oil
- 46 g breadcrumbs leftover end bit of homemade bread (approx 46g) broken into breadcrumbs
- 2 pinches salt
- 2 pinches ground black pepper
Home made bread
- 24 slices home made bread from your bread making this week
Instructions
- Put all ingredients together (except the oil) in a saucepan and simmer for around 10 mins or until the beans are ready to fall apart under the gentle pressure of your potato masher, or a fork.
- Mash up the pate.
- Leave to cool.
- Add the oil and remash/mix.
- You can make this in your food processor too, less mashing!
- Store in a bowl, covered with cling film or a plastic tub with a lid, in the fridge, for up to 4 days.
Notes
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