My Baked Beans
From choclytcandy 13 years agoIngredients
- Dried Beans: Makes 5 cups shopping list
- 2 cups dried bean, such as small white beans, flageolets, cannellini, or black turtle beans shopping list
- 1 gallon poultry, ham or meat stock (you need this much to keep replenishing the liquid) shopping list
- 1 head fresh garlic, root removed, crushed shopping list
- 1 ham bone or knuckle shopping list
- 1 cup aromatic vegetable mix, wrapped in cheesecloth (See Below) shopping list
- 1 herb bundle (See Below) shopping list
- 1 tbs freshly chopped garlic shopping list
- 1/4 cup olive oil shopping list
- salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste shopping list
- vegetABLE MIX: shopping list
- 1 lb carrots, peeled, and chopped shopping list
- 1 lb yellow or white onions, chopped shopping list
- 1 lb celery stalks, chopped shopping list
- 1 bay leaf crumbled shopping list
- herb BUNDLE: shopping list
- 4 green leek leaves, washed shopping list
- 1 stalk celery shopping list
- 1 bay leaf shopping list
- 4 sprigs fresh parsley shopping list
- 2 sprigs fresh or dried thyme shopping list
- 2 sprigs fresh chervil shopping list
- 1 sprig fresh tarragon shopping list
- 4 cups dried cannellini beans, cooked shopping list
How to make it
- Dried Beans Cooking Directions:
- Put the washed beans in a pot at least twice the size of the volume of the beans. Cover with cold water by 4-inches. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring the beans a couple of times. When the water boils, turn off the heat and let the beans sit uncovered for 15 minutes.
- Pour the beans into a colander, run them under cold water to wash them completely, rinse out the pot, and put the beans back in.
- Pour in enough stock to cover the beans by 6-inches, and then add the head of crushed garlic, ham bone, vegetable mix, and herb bundle. Bring to a boil and simmer the beans for 30 to 60 minutes or until tender, skimming any foam or scum that rises to the surface and making sure the beans are covered by 4-inches of liquid at all times.
- Drain (save the liquid for soups and sauces), discard all the ingredients except the beans, and toss the beans in the garlic and oil. Season and refrigerate until needed.
- My Baked Beans:
- Soaked the apricots in the rum for 2 hours, drain, saving the rum and chop them.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- Put the beans in a big mixing bowl. Add the apricots and rum, the garlic, ginger, ancho chili powder, brown sugar, molasses, mustard, steak sauce, and vinegar.
- Mix well and put in the bean pot. Layer the bacon on top of the beans. Pour in the stout and enough bean-cooking liquid to cover the beans by 1-inch. Cover and put in the oven. Bake 2 hours, topping up with liquid as it disappears.
- When cool enough to handle, take out the bacon and chop. Add the chopped bacon to the beans and mix. Stir salt and pepper into the beans if needed. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- To serve, add 2 cups of the cooking liquid or chicken stock, and heat the beans uncovered for 30 to 45 minutes at 350 degrees, or until the beans are heated through.
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