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jar of white beans - not butter beans
either block presunto or however many slices of presunto you would like
1 red pepper (or, if you forget, like me ) green is okay
1 red onion
2 bay leaves
rosemary to taste
olive oil or bacon fat or black pork fat to start it off
350ml (ish) water

Gently fry the oil/fat, add finely chopped onion and diced red pepper and cook gently for about 5 minutes or until soft. Add herbs, beans and water. Simmer for 20 minutes.We sometimes find the water is too much, but you can always add more, as you simmer the mixture.

Enjoy

This also goes well with pork

Mmm, thanks
Will write these both out tomorrow.
Rosemary goes really well with white beans
We tend to get cans not jars, I'd use probably cannelini.

You can easily leave out the presunto/bacon with this one too I reckon, or replace in either bean recipe with a rasher or two of streaky bacon.
The liquid should all but disappear, that's right isn't it Ton?

Well I have two pots of rosemary growing well so might try this too.....beans are a favourite of mine, Mick's too

Yes Di, it should. But we found that using all of the 350ml left it - usually when Grumpy made it - a bit too wet.

We're having chicken of some description tonight (it's whole atm) so I think I'll do this since I have everything
Don't have black beans or oranges so white bean thingy it is

Oh yes - what size (or rather weight) are those jars? - they looked quite big
A standard can is 400g, just been to look, it says drained weight 246g.
And I haven't got any canellini beans, unless there are some dried left - only 3-bean mix. Off to investigate>>>

Back. Dried cannellini beans (Delia's method, no need to soak overnight: bring to boil, boil 10 mins, cover and leave 2 hours, drain and cook).
Btw, no garlic in this one?

Got the white bean jar in front of me Di

Drained weight is 400g, so you could use all of it and freeze the other half, when cooked.

And I would have thought that the 3 beans would be okay too