warm butter beans with rosemary and garlic

I made this last night and it was so delicious. I think it might be my new favorite dish. Kevin loved it! I found it at the Stone Soup. Have you ever been there? Jules uses only 5 ingredients and 10 minutes. She calls it minimalist home cooking. I love it!

It is such a cool blog and she she has a free e-cookbook that you can download and print. Go there and check it out. It’s got 65 great, easy, healthy recipes with wonderful pictures!

Here is what she says about her cooking style…….

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So – onto the recipe…..

You can serve this as bruschetta with the beans dished up on toast. Or, serve the beans in the middle of the table with bread on the side so your guests can help themselves.

You can make this with cannelloni beans or butter beans or even chickpeas.

I made it as a side dish with no bread, but bread would have been great. I actually added finely chopped onion since I was out of garlic. The outside gets a little crunchy from being fried and the inside is soft. So good.

What you need:

1 can butter beans, drained

1-2 cloves garlic, peeled & finely sliced

2 small sprigs rosemary, leaves picked

pinch chili flakes

What you do:

Heat a small frying pan over a medium heat and add 3 tablespoons olive oil. Add remaining ingredients and stir fry beans until they are golden and warmed through.

Season well and serve with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.