Thermomix homemade baked beans recipe

Baked beans – you either love them or you don’t. If you’re part of the latter camp, this recipe might just sway you. If you’re a born and bred baked bean advocate, prepare to have your taste buds blown – you’ll never return to the tinned variety again!

If you’re a Thermomix owner and yet to try making your own baked beans, I can very much recommend this recipe from the culinary genius Lucy at Thermobliss. Perfect for warm, filling breakfasts, an after school snack or you can go and make a complete meal of them as pictured below.

Ingredients

1tsp olive oil

100g bacon, roughly chopped

1 brown onion, quartered

1 garlic clove, crushed

1 stick of celery, washed and chopped

1 green capsicum, seeds removed and chopped

¼ cup brown sugar, firmly packed

400g tin chopped tomatoes

1 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon ground cumin

½ teaspoon Chinese five spice

2 x 400g tin cannellini beans, drained and rinsed

salt and pepper to taste

Method

• Place the bacon in the Thermomix and chop for 2 seconds on speed 6.
• Scrape down the bowl and add the teaspoon of olive oil. Cook at 80°C , reverse, speed 2 for 4 minutes. Once time is up, transfer to a separate bowl and set aside.
• Add onion, garlic, celery and capsicum to the Thermomix bowl and chop together on speed 6 for 3 seconds.
• Add bacon back to the Thermomix bowl with the chopped vegetables. Cook at 80°C , reverse, speed 2 for 4 minutes.
• Add the brown sugar, tomatoes and spices. Cook at 100°C , reverse, speed 2 for 10 minutes.
• Add the cannellini beans and season with salt and pepper. Mix together on reverse, speed 1 for 3 minutes.

While the kids might be happy with baked beans and buttered toast soldiers, amp it up for the adults as I did here below. Simply file a ramekin to three-quarters full with the cooked baked beans, add sliced chorizo, a few pieces of feta cheese, crack an egg on top and bake in a preheated 200°C oven for 10 minutes (enough time for it to bubble and cook the egg). Top with a few peanuts for crunch just before serving with delicious buttered bread and get ready to dip!

The recipe yields about five cups of baked beans and freezes well. My tip – freeze the beans in one cup quantities for quick grab meals and snacks from the freezer!

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