Caramelised leeks with butter beans
Serves: 2
Prep time: 15 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Stuart West
Caramelised leeks with butter beans
Recipes with minimal ingredients get a great boost from miso, which lends lots of flavour with minimum effort here
Serves: 2
Prep time: 15 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
307Kcal
Fat
14gr
Saturates
2gr
Carbs
26gr
Sugars
8gr
Fibre
17gr
Protein
13gr
Salt
0.9gr
Nadine Brown
When Nadine isn't busy developing delicious recipes and using her experience as a health food editor to create healthy treats, she's munching and reviewing her way around her beloved home town of Tottenham. Find out what she's cooking and eating on Instagram @n0sh.17
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Nadine Brown
When Nadine isn't busy developing delicious recipes and using her experience as a health food editor to create healthy treats, she's munching and reviewing her way around her beloved home town of Tottenham. Find out what she's cooking and eating on Instagram @n0sh.17
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 leeks, trimmed and sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 x 400g tin butter beans
- 1 tbsp white miso*
- juice of ½ lemon
- small handful of flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- crusty bread*, to serve
Step by step
- Heat the olive oil in a large sauté or frying pan over a medium-high heat. Sear the leeks for 2 minutes or until well browned underneath – don’t be tempted to stir, you want them to colour. Stir and leave again for another 2 minutes. Stir, add the garlic and cook for another minute.
- Add the entire tin of beans, water and all, and stir into the leeks. Combine the miso with 1 tablespoon of hot water to thin, then stir this into the pan along with an extra 50ml water. Reduce the heat and leave to simmer for a further 5 minutes until the beans have softened and the liquid has slightly reduced, crushing some beans lightly with a fork or spatula to help thicken.
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Remove from the heat and add some of the lemon juice. Taste and add extra lemon juice if desired. Season to taste, garnish with the parsley and serve with crusty bread on the side.
*Check your miso is gluten-free and use gluten-free bread, if required.
