A few months ago, I went home with my 5 year old after a very long Sunday activity and shrepping. We were both in a bad mood and needed an early bedtime. It was one of the nights you really wanted to order takeaway, but you did it just the night before.
In my last effort, I grabbed a can of beans with tomato sauce from the cabinet and looked for the fridge to strengthen it a little. Mozzarella? of course. With the spinach, I put the beans in a pot with a handful of fine rosins, warmed for 2 minutes, then scooped into slices of sandwich bread. “Pizza beans!” I declared because sometimes you have to sell it. And frankly, my cabinet preparation didn’t look particularly appetizing. Still, tomato sauce and mozzarella usually do so, so I thought it was fine. Then I bit from a pile of mystery beans and, to my surprise, it was phenomenal. Flavored, cheeky and twisted. It was far better than a can of beans.
Even if I have more than 5 minutes to cook dinner, I make it regularly now. It’s warm, stuffed, very flexible, and tastes great with the remaining vegetables hanging in the fridge, like cauliflower and zucchini.
5 minutes of cheeky cheap beans
Provides 1-2
1 can of white or gigante beans in tomato sauce (I used it thesebut every brand works! Make sure it’s a delicious sauce – do not have Sweet like Heinz baked beans)
A few small small fine mozzarella cheese
1-2 cups of spinach, or thick vegetables knocking around chopped cauliflower, broccoli, or produce
Pour the beans into a small pot (try to scrape off all the delicious sauce!) and reduce heat to low. Sprinkle the mozzarella on top and stir until melted. Stir the vegetables for 1 minute and then turn off the heat.
Raise it on top of a slice of sandwich bread or in a bowl on your own. This will provide a very heartfelt meal for one or two if you are sharing it with a 5 year old who is more tired than hungry. The good news is that it takes up to five minutes. Rather than making a large batch before, I recommend starting with one and leaving the pot unwashed until dinner is definitely over.
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Source: Cup of Jo – cupofjo.com
