“Comforting Creamy Butter Beans for Dinner”

A warm, comforting, and protein-packed meal. These flavorful beans are perfect with crusty bread for a quick midweek lunch or dinner.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp ginger paste

1 tbsp garlic paste

1 tsp dried red chilli flakes

2 spring onions, thinly sliced

570g (1lb 4oz) jar butter beans in salted water

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp fish sauce

1 tbsp white miso

2 tbsp crème fraîche

½ lime, juice only

Chilli oil, for drizzling

Toasted sourdough slices, to serve (optional)

Method:

Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan on medium–high heat. Add ginger paste, garlic paste, chilli flakes, and 1 sliced spring onion. Cook for about 1 minute.

Add the butter beans with the liquid from the jar. Mix well.

Stir in the soy sauce, fish sauce, and white miso. Make sure the beans are mostly covered with liquid. Add a little water if needed.

Cook on high heat for 5 minutes. Then add the crème fraîche and lime juice. Mix well and remove from heat.

Sprinkle the beans with the remaining spring onion and drizzle with chilli oil.

Serve warm with toasted sourdough, if you like.