I've always wanted to make my own baked beans! Don't ask me why; I guess, like bread, it's just one of those satisfaction things to be able to do.
In addition, finding sugar free baked beans is not easy (or cheap). Sure, I can get them in large supermarkets, but we try to avoid those. Plus my small local health food shop do not always have them in.
So today I set myself the challenge of making some beans and this is the recipe I created:
Sugar free baked beans
Ingredients
- 1 finely diced onion
- 1 clove smashed garlic
- 1 finely diced red pepper
- a little oil for frying
- 10 tbsp passata
- 2 tbsp agave syrup
- 1 tsp cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- pinch mustard powder
- pinch allspice
- pinch cinamon
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tin drained haricot beans
Method
- Fry 1 finely diced onion, 1 clove smashed garlic and 1 finely diced red pepper in a little oil until soft
- Add the rest of the ingredients, pop a lid on and simmer for 30 minutes
10/10 - better than Heinz! My daughter asked for more vinegar next time and DH asked for less vinegar and more salt; so I guess it's a question of taste. But this was a huge success and I was able to make an organic, sugar free product for less than I could buy it for.
I was really pleased and had a Ma Larkin moment!
I do actually need this recipe in Italy Rae as all you can get are yucky, sickly old heinz beans and they cost over €2 a tin!! These look much more wholesome... just need to see if I can source some Agave syrup now.... health food shop, here we come!!
ReplyDelete£2 a tin - oh my goodness! Well, if you don't mind the sugar, use sugar instead :) I just use agave because of dd's intolerance to refined sugar.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!