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Cosy Roasted Shallot & Butterbean Bowl
Let the oven do the hard work for you in this blissfully easy recipe from Healthy Made Simple - the new cookbook by Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella. You’ll roast shallots and garlic cloves till soft and deep golden brown. Then, simmer with sweet leeks and plump butterbeans. Stir in spinach and green beans for instant vitamins and serve with brown rice for comforting fibre. Delicious and simple.
2/3 daily fibre
5 of 5 a day
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 160g green beans
- 10g vegetable stock powder (use half) (Chicory Extract, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Onion Powder, Carrot Extract, Tomato Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Natural Flavouring.)
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (apple cider vinegar (100%))
- 100g rice (brown) (100% Brown Rice)
- 2 leek
- 230g butter beans (Rehydrated butter beans, water, salt, antioxidant: ascorbic acid.)
- 80g baby spinach
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
- 4 garlic clove
- 4 shallot
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- ½ tsp chilli flakes
Nutritional Information
Calories: 548
Protein: 21g
Carbs: 78g
Fat: 16g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (use half) (apple cider vinegar (100%))
- 160g green beans (use half)
- 100g rice (brown) (use half) (100% Brown Rice)
- 10g vegetable stock powder (use half) (Chicory Extract, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Onion Powder, Carrot Extract, Tomato Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Natural Flavouring.)
- 4 shallot
- 1 unwaxed lemon (use half)
- 4 garlic clove
- 2 leek
- 0.5 tsp chilli flakes (use half)
- 1 handful of fresh thyme (use half)
- 80g baby spinach (use half)
- 230g butter beans (use half) (Rehydrated butter beans, water, salt, antioxidant: ascorbic acid.)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 650
Protein: 26g
Carbs: 92g
Fat: 19g
Cosy Roasted Shallot & Butterbean Bowl
Let the oven do the hard work for you in this blissfully easy recipe from Healthy Made Simple - the new cookbook by Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella. You’ll roast shallots and garlic cloves till soft and deep golden brown. Then, simmer with sweet leeks and plump butterbeans. Stir in spinach and green beans for instant vitamins and serve with brown rice for comforting fibre. Delicious and simple.
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Cooking Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220C / fan 200C / gas mark 7. Bring a large saucepan filled with salted hot water to a boil. Add the rice and boil for 25-30 mins, until cooked, then drain.
- Keeping the skin on and root intact, quarter the shallots lengthways. Place the shallots onto an un-lined baking tray, toss with 2 tsp oil and season with a pinch of sea salt. Arrange on the tray, cut-side down. Add the cloves of garlic and roast for 20-25 mins, until soft and deep golden brown.
- In the meantime, strip the thyme from the stalks and finely chop. Trim and thinly slice the leeks into 1cm rounds. Trim the green beans. Heat a large saucepan pan with 2 tsp oil on medium heat. Add the thyme, leeks and chilli flakes (to taste) and cook for 8-10 mins, until softened but not coloured.
- Next, add the green beans and butterbeans (with all the liquid from their tin) to the pan. Add 200ml water and crumble in the half stock cube. Simmer for 4-5 mins, until the green beans are cooked and the liquid has reduced slightly. Rinse the spinach, then add to the pan, along with a splash of vinegar (to taste). Stir to wilt and season with sea salt and black pepper to taste.
- When the shallots are ready and cool enough to handle, peel their skins off and stir the flesh into the beans. Peel the garlic, mash the cloves into a paste with the back of a fork, then stir into the beans too.
- Serve the beans into bowls and drizzle with 2 tsp olive oil. Zest over half the lemon and finish with plenty of black pepper and a pinch of sea salt. Serve alongside the rice.
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