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Boston baked beans

Name: Boston baked beans
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 7 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 500g pack dried haricot beans; 2 onions roughly chopped; 2 celery sticks, roughly chopped; 2 carrots roughly chopped; 2 tbsp Dijon mustard; 2 tbsp light muscovado sugar; ½ tbsp black treacle or molasses; 2 tbsp tomato purée; 800g piece pork belly; handful parsley roughly chopped

Mary Cadogan

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 2 hrs - 2 hrs and 30 mins

Plus soaking

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Try our American-style version of baked beans served with pork belly. This hearty, budget-friendly one-pot makes a comforting family dinner.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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500g pack dried haricot beans
2 onions

roughly chopped
2 celery

sticks, roughly chopped
2 carrots

roughly chopped
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
2 tbsp light muscovado sugar
½ tbsp black treacle or molasses
2 tbsp tomato purée
800g piece pork belly
handful parsley

roughly chopped

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal615
fat27g
saturates10g
carbs54g
sugars14g
fibre16g
protein43g
salt0.8g

low

Method

step 1

Soak the beans in a large bowl of cold water for at least 4 hrs or overnight. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Drain and rinse the beans and put in a large flameproof casserole with 1.5 litres water. Boil for 10 mins, skimming off any scum that appears on the surface.
step 2

Add the onion, celery, carrot, Dijon mustard, sugar, treacle or molasses and tomato purée. Stir until everything is well mixed, then bury the piece of pork in among the beans. Cover tightly and cook in the oven for 2-2½ hrs until the beans and pork are very tender. Check halfway through the cooking time and top up with hot water from the kettle if necessary.
step 3

Take the pork out of the pot. Cut into large chunks and serve with the beans, sprinkled with parsley.

RECIPE TIPS

BEANS

Dried beans are undoubtedly much cheaper, but you need to allow significant time for soaking. Canned beans can be rinsed, added to a dish and simply heated through before serving. If you want to swap dried or canned in any recipe, you will need to cook 100g dried beans instead of using a 400g can and vice versa.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2010

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