A Real Winter Warmer (Home Cooking - Helpful Hints and Tips)

Member Name: Picasso

Product:	Home Cooking - Helpful Hints and Tips
Date:	01/10/01 (121 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Extremely tasty

Disadvantages: None

Last week I asked my husband what he wanted for tea, his reply was "can we have that bean thing that you used to make when I was a student?". What he meant was Chili Bean Casserole. This was a very low cost recipe that I regularly used when my husband decided to become a mature student a month after we were married. Obviously we had little income and this meal was cheap, nourishing and extremely tasty. As students take up their first year, for those returning and for anyone on a low income this is a real winter warmer. This recipe is best made up the night before, allowing the ingredients to fuse. It's simply delicious.

INGREDIENTS - SERVES 4:

1 large onion diced.
210 gram tin of tomatoes (chopped).
210 tin of baked beans.
210 tin of kidney beans drained.
2 cloves of garlic.
1/2 teaspoon chili powder.
1 tablespoon of tomato puree.
margarine/oil for frying.

METHOD:

Fry onion in a large saucepan until soft. Add garlic, chili powder and tomato puree and stir.
Add the remaining three ingredients, tomotoes,baked beans and kidney beans.
Simmer for around 20 minutes and turn off the heat.
Leave until the following day and reheat.

SERVE

This is excellent with a jacket potato, however if you are trying to keep heating cost down and don't possess a microwave then an excellent alternative can be had by smearing pitta bread with garlic butter inside and then filling with the casserole.

ALTERNATIVES

Try with either vegetarian or meat sausages. Simply cook the sausages, chop and add to the pan five minutes before serving.

During the winters months this is an excellent, practical and nourishing meal. What is more it's very cheap to prepare and requires very little in culinary skills.

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