
Deliciously Ella’s Warming Pesto Butter Beans
- Difficulty level : Easy
- Type : Breakfast
- Cuisine : French
A favourite recipe from my blog, which I hope you’ll love. it’s incredibly simple but very addictive the first time I made this I cooked it four or five times in the next two weeks! There’s just something about the mix of soft, buttery beans smothered in home-made pesto with sauted spinach, crunchy pumpkin seeds and sweet, juicy pomegranates that I can’t get enough of.
Ingredients
- For the pesto
- 1 garlic clove
- 50g pine nuts
- handful of basil leaves
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lemon lemon juice
- A portion salt and pepper to taste
- For the salad
- 400g can of butter beans drained and rinsed
- 100g spinach
- 1 lemon lemon juice
- handful of pumpkin seeds
- sprinkling of pomegranate seeds
- A drizzle olive oil
Method
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Start by making the pesto. Simply peel the garlic and then put all the ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth. Set aside.
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Place the beans in a frying pan with the spinach and pesto and sauté everything in a splash of olive oil for 2─3 minutes until the spinach has wilted and everything is warm.
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While they cook, squeeze the lemon for the salad over the beans and add more black pepper.
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Place the pesto beans and spinach into a bowl and sprinkle the pumpkin and pomegranate seeds over the top.
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Tweak It - In hot weather, swap the wilted spinach for fresh rocket and serve this as a cold salad.Recipe extracted from Deliciously Ella Every Day by Ella Woodward, published by Yellow Kite. © Ella Woodward 2016. Photography Clare Winfield.
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