I'll start with the recipe, afterwards the blog part :)
Ingredients
This is a recipe for 2, cooking time around 3h (mostly leaving the beans to boil). This recipe takes longer to cook, but it's actually easier than most meals I cook.
● 1.5 cups dry white beans (200g)
● water
● 1-2 tbsp Sweet paprika spice
● Onion (optional + green pepper)
● 1 tsp flour
● 1 tbsp oil (regular or olive oil)
● Your choice Spices- I use rosemary, bay leaf, chili, garlic, oregano, black pepper, basil (You can use Italian seasoning for easier)
● 2tsp All purpose seasoning (it's primarily salt)
Process:
You can soak beans overnight, for faster cooking.
Put beans in a pot and cover with water, roughly double volume. Cover with a lid. Bring to boil and lower heat to simmer until soft, around 3h. Add salt to taste. Make sure there is always some water in the pot, without a lid the water will evaporate fast.
After boiling for 1 hour replace the water, to reduce potential bloating.
Approximately half an hour before the beans are cooked start Part 2- cook the diced onion on oil till cooked, add the flour and fry a little longer. Take off heat and add the other spices and mix. Sweet paprika is most important for this recipe.
Check the pot to see how much water there is, if you prefer drier, you need just enough water to cover beans (remove or add water to preference). Add the spice mixture to the pot and mix well. This will thicken the water and add all of flavors.
You can add the spices earlier but this way is easier, most spices will stay in water so you want to make sure you don't have too much of it. For drier beans, just add less of the liquid before baking.
Baking: (This is optional, but recommended)
Preheat oven to 230 Celsius
You need oven safe deep tray or oven safe ceramics.
Bake 30-40min
Blog
I've started cooking more plant based and this is one of my favorite recipes so far. I've had a lot of failed recipes, so any suggestions based on your experience are very welcome. I don't have access to tofu, soy, substitute meats, black beans or most other specialty items. We regularly take B complex, D3 and omega supplements.
Last week I made regular lasagna and substituted 1/3rd of the meat with 1 big zucchini. My partner loved it and he had no idea ;P So, I'm mostly doing stuff like that now, reducing meat with various veggies.
If you want to track your nutrients you can try https://cronometer.com/ . However, it seems more accurate if you write separate ingredients than dish names.
If you enjoyed this recipe, this is my previous food post:
If you know any other great bean recipes, please share. I'd love to know if you try this recipe and how it turns out :) Let me know if you have any questions in the comments!
Thank you for reading <3