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Prue’s Spanish Beans on Fried Bread
Prue Leith
Featuring:
Pulses
Effort:
Complexity:
Cost:
In season now
Serves: 2
Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Ingredients:
Oil for frying
2 thick slices bread
80g sliced chorizo
½ tsp smoked paprika
6 ripe cherry tomatoes
400g can white (cannellini) beans
1 tbsp chopped parsley leaves, plus a few whole leaves
Recipe donated from Prue Leith.
This is a LOT more interesting and delicious than beans-on-toast! It’s the perfect speedy supper for the family — or a late-night snack that even non-cooking teenagers could manage. An artisan baker’s white bloomer loaf would be best for this, but to be honest, any thick loaf will do.
Method:
Put a splash of oil into a large frying pan, swirl it round to coat the surface, then fry the bread slices in the pan, turning to brown both sides.
When well browned, take the bread out and put in the chorizo slices, smoked paprika and the cherry tomatoes, with a tablespoon more oil if necessary. Fry, shaking the pan occasionally, until the tomatoes are softened and the
chorizo is beginning to brown.
Drain the beans, add them to the pan and simmer all together until hot. Stir in the
chopped parsley. Serve on the toast, with, just for the sake of appearances, a few parsley leaves
on top.
TIP: If you haven’t got any plain cannellini, you could just doctor a can of baked beans. The addition of chorizo works wonders, and real chunks of tomato will lift the flavour.
Engaging Kids
Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.
Kids in the kitchen
See if kids want to help with the prep for this recipe – getting together the ingredients, helping slice chorizo if they are able, or just draining and rinsing the beans and washing the cherry tomatoes.
Master these skills:
Cleaning vegetables, Weighing, Tasting, Bridge chopping
Activities
Why not get a selection of different dried or cooked beans and lentils and try and capture the different colours, textures and shapes with colouring pencils? Or make a rainmaker with an empty, clean lidded crisp tube or milk bottle – pour in some dried beans or lentils, decorate them and seal the lid tightly before shake, shake, shaking!
Kids more interested in science? You can find at-home science fun with veg with our videos from Stefan Gates’ here.
Sensory
Why not explore pulses through touch and sight? There are so many different kinds of beans and lentils. Get a few types that are a good mix in size/shape and colour, dried vs cooked, etc. and see if you can and your child can describe them. What do they look like? What colours, shapes and patterns can you see? What do they remind you of? What do they feel like? Are they rough, smooth, slimy, hard?
Find more sensory ideas, tips and videos here. If you get stuck and need a little help with describing words, we have a selection for you here, too!
Serving
Next time you make this meal, try to get your kids involved in small ways wherever you can – when serving it up, why not let your child help you plate and garnish it, or maybe they could design a menu for the table.
Find the best ways of involving your own child and their skills and interests on our Roles for Kids page.
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