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Lucy Parker’s curried butter beans on toast recipe

Lucy Parker’s curried butter beans on toast recipe

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If beans on toast is your thing, you need to try recipe creator Lucy's twist which has big bold curry flavours.​ Her recipe counts towards 2 of your 5-a-day and butter beans are a great source of fibre! See method

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 red onion, finely chopped​
  • thumb sized piece fresh ginger, finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp tomato purée​
  • 1 tbsp curry powder
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • 2 x 400g tins butter beans, 1 tin drained and rinsed
  • 250ml light coconut milk
  • 100g spinach, roughly chopped
  • 150g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • juice of ½ lime

To serve

  • 3 tbsp toasted almond flakes
  • handful fresh coriander
  • 4 large slices seeded bread, toasted
2 of your 5-a-day and high in fibre

Each serving contains

  • Energy

    1690kj
    404kcal     20%

  • Fat

    16g 23%

  • Saturates

    5g 23%

  • Sugars

    7g 7%

  • Salt

    0.7g 11%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 42.1g Protein 16.9g Fibre 12.7g

Method

  1. Heat a large pan over a medium-high heat and add the vegetable oil. Add the onion, ginger and garlic and fry for 6-7 mins. 
  2. Add the tomato purée with a splash of water to loosen, along with the curry powder, turmeric and butter beans. Stir until coated, seasoning with black pepper. 
  3. Simmer for 5 mins, then pour in the coconut milk, spinach and most of the cherry tomatoes and cook for a further 2 mins until the spinach has wilted. 
  4. Stir in the lime juice, then top with the toasted almonds, remaining tomatoes and coriander just before serving. Serves the beans on toast.

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