Sugar reduced Baked Beans

[Quarter-Sawn]

Baked beans have lots of sugar in the sauce, which isn't good for some. If you can't get sugar free beans, do what I do.

Pour the beans into a fine sieve and rinse off all the gungy sauce under the tap.

Put the washed beans in a saucepan.

Napolina tinned plum-tomatoes have no added sugar or salt, so chop up a couple and put them with the beans, along with some of the tomato juice.
Add about two teaspoons of tomato puree for colour and mix well.
If the result looks a bit dry, add a drop of milk.
Cook over a medium heat, strirring occasionally to avoid burning.

Serve on granary toast and top with Parmesan if you don't mind the extra cals!

With apologies to Heinz etc.. their sauces are a bit sweet whether you are on a diet or not. So for me, this is a far better taste, than straight out of the can and takes very little longer to prepare.

You won't want baked beans any other way after you try this.


QS

[jaco]

This sounds actully very lekker!

Wil suggest to SWTSKB!
;D ;D Will now go home.

[woodworker]

Ti's true about the sugar in the beans, but there's another not so good ingredient, Salt & lot's of it .

I tried a tin of the reduced salt & sugar ones recently and they tasted awful, just goes to show exactly just how much salt & sugar they put in... LOTS .

[ddashk]

if you can find the wholeearth beans that suma supply they're worth a shot. best beans i've ever had.

[jake]

Why not just buy a tin of plain haricot beans?

[Quarter-Sawn]

Jake,

Quite true. It would be easier. I tried. I couldn't find any. No one seems to know what they are around here! When I did find some, they were spicy. Strange as it seems these days, I don't like spicy food. After a curry, I would drink the well dry!
;D
Cheers
QS.

[jake]

Fair enough!

I don't know where you are, but all big supermarkets have plenty of tinned beans and pulses whereever I've lived. Spicy is weird. They are more beany than Heinz-type ones, somehow!

[hookie]

;D