For
The Love of Your Heart
Easy Esselstyn Diet Recipes with Pictures: White Bean & Herb
Spread
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White Bean & Herb Spread served warm |
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Snack
Serve the bean
spread hot out of the oven for generating a very pleasant pepper bite. Use
WASA sourdough crisp bread as “chips” for ladling out the bean mixure or as
support for spooned out spread. |
Served
This is a mild bean spread full of body, aromatic essence and pleasing peppery bite. Served warm it is inviting to elevate any conversation over a glass of wine to an engaged and enticing atmosphere. |
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Get in Advance: ½ large onion, chopped ½ red onion, chopped ¾ teaspoon dried rosemary (or ½ tablespoon fresh tarragon and ½ teaspoon fresh rosemary) 1 1/2 cups of cooked white beans (White Great Northern beans) equals 1 15 oz can. 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar ¼ of a quarter-teaspoon of ground Cayenne pepper ½ of a quarter-teaspoon black pepper. Have On Hand: A fresh spring of rosemary for garnish Crisp bread, broken in pieces for Recipe (Adapted from "Bean by Bean," by Crescent Dragonwagon (Workman, 2012) and modified to low-salt, low-fat diet): For 2-3 portions. Prep time: 60 min. Prepare the
Beans In a medium sized plastic container provided with a lid Wash 2/3 cup of dry Northern beans Add 2 cups of water Soak beans covered in the fridge overnight. Next day wash beans and cook for 60 min. Let cool down and wash again. Then set aside. Prepare the Spread Preheat the oven to 350 degree F Prepare the onion mixture In a skillet braise the onions until tender but do not brown (6 min) Add garlic and stir for 1 min until fragrant. Let cool down. In the Food Processor Add onion mixture Add beans, vinegar, cayenne and black pepper. Buzz until ingredients are smooth Fill into a gratin dish In the Oven Put the dish in the upper most rack Do not cover and bake for 25 min. Serve Serve hot in the same dish Garnish with a spring of rosemary Use Wasa Sourdough bread broken into smaller pieces for dipping. |
Ingredients
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2/3 cup beans, soaked overneight in fridge
Cooked beans, ready to be rinsed and used
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Cutting the onion
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Cutting the red onion
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Mincing the garlic cloves
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Chopped onions and galic
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Onion mixture briased in covered skillet
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Added herbs and garlic
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Additionally braised without browning
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All ingreadients filled into blender cup
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Purreed white bean mixture
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Ready bean mixture filled into a gratine dish
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Prepared
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Served - Detail
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