Baked Beans

This is a dish made to suit the continental menu. Just as we make rajma /channa with the desi  masalas the westerners make baked beans with whole grains. For this we can use rajma beans or black eyed beans (lobia).

Any whole grain is rich in proteins, minerals, vitamins and fibre which is good for the system. We all know that variety is the spice of life. So the attempt is to make the same rajma or lobia in a different way which can be had with a piece of bread or a dinner role.

Ingredients:

500g black eyed beans, 1chopped onion, 1chopped capsicum, 1tsp yellow mustard, 2 tsp freshly chopped celery 2 tbsp tomato sauce, 200g tomato puree, 2tbsp brown sugar, 1tbsp oil and salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. Wash and soak the beans for 4 to 6 hours and drain the water. 
2. Cook the beans with little salt in a pressure cooker till soft which takes about 20 minutes. 
3. Heat oil in a pan, put onion and fry a little, to this add capsicum, mustard, celery and little bit of salt. 
4. After frying a little more take it off the flame and cool it. 
5. This has to be grinded in the mixie to a soft paste. 
6. Now add the fine paste along with the other ingredients to the cooked beans and bake it in the oven at 170 degrees for about 20 minutes or simmer it on the gas till soft and blended which takes about another 10 to 15 minutes.

Serve hot with garlic bread or dinner roles.

Fresh celery can be substituted with the dried one, regular mustard seeds can be used in the place of yellow mustard and also care should be taken when adding salt because, we add tomato sauce and puree which are salted.

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