Homemade baked beans

Serving ideas - Serve beans on toasted bread, mashed potato or hash browns. Top beans with shavings of parmesan. Poach an egg to serve with your baked beans. Add cooked sausages to your meal.

Ingredients

2 Tbsp	Olive oil
1	Onion, finely chopped
2 cloves	Garlic, crushed
1 tsp	Bittersweet smoked paprika (Main)
1 pinch	Dried oregano
1	400g can chopped tomatoes, in juice (Main)
1 pinch	Sugar
1 serving	Sea salt and cracked black pepper
2 cups	Butter beans, (large) drained and rinsed or use a 400g can smaller butter beans or cannellini beans, drained and rinsed (Main)
1 small handful	Chopped flat-leaf parsley

Directions

1. Gently heat the oil in a heavy-based saucepan then add the onion and cook for 5 minutes until the onion begins to soften.
2. Add the garlic and smoked paprika and cook for a further 30 seconds.
3. Add the oregano, chopped tomatoes and sugar and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Simmer the tomato sauce until it thickens, about 5 minutes.
4. Add the drained and rinsed butter beans and stir to combine. Simmer gently until the beans are heated through. Stir through the parsley.
5. Serve hot with any of the suggestions below.

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