House-Made Baked Beans

Serves 12

Ingredients:

• 20ml vegetable oil

• 150g bacon, diced

• 1 onion, diced

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• 300g cooked black turtle beans

• 600g cooked haricot/cannellini beans

• 300g Barker's Professional Tomato Meal Base

• 300ml water

• 45g molasses

• 40ml cider vinegar

• 1 tbsp American mustard

• 10ml Worcestershire sauce

• ½ tsp cayenne pepper

• table salt

• freshly milled pepper

Method:

1. Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan.

2. Add the bacon, onion and garlic. Lightly fry for 3 minutes.

3. Add the beans, the Barker's Professional Tomato Meal Base, water, molasses, cider vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and cayenne pepper.

4. Bring to the boil, then cover with a lid and simmer for 1 hour.

5. Adjust the seasoning.

HANDY HINTS:

To reduce time, use canned beans. Drain and rinse before adding.

Use smoked bacon pieces to lift profile of beans to another level.

Delicious with fried eggs and breakfast sausage.

Also great for nachos.

Remove the bacon for a vegetarian option.

If molasses unavailable, swap out for 30g brown sugar.

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