Deliciously Ella’s warming pesto butter beans
This easy pesto butter bean recipe, for one person, is from Ella Woodward’s cookbook Deliciously Ella Every Day.
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Ingredients
For the pesto
- 1 garlic clove
- 50g pine nuts
- Big handful fresh basil leaves (25g)
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- Juice 1 lemon
For the salad
- 400g can butter beans, drained and rinsed
- 100g spinach
- Olive oil
- Juice 1 lemon
- Handful pumpkin seeds
- Sprinkling pomegranate seeds (30g)
Method
- Start by making the pesto. Simply peel the garlic, then put all the ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth. Set aside.
- Place the beans in a frying pan with the spinach and pesto and sauté everything in a splash of olive oil for 2–3 minutes until the spinach has wilted and everything is warm.
- While they cook, squeeze the lemon for the salad over the beans and add more black pepper. Put the pesto beans and spinach into a bowl and sprinkle the pumpkin and pomegranate seeds over the top.
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