Easy baked beans

Easy baked beans - healthy and delicious! It's the perfect easy lunch or quick dinner and even for snacks and great to have on hand in the freezer.

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Course: Dinner

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 1 30

Total Time: 1 45

Servings: adults or 8 kids

Calories: 257kcal

Author: adapted from [url href="http://www.goodbabykitchen.com/easy-homemade-baked-beans/" target="_blank"]Good Baby Kitchen[/url]

2 x 400g cans of cannellini beans
1 700 g bottle of tomato passata
160 g 6oz short cut rindless bacon (nitrate-free, free-range if possible), diced
1 brown onion diced
2 heaped teaspoon crushed garlic
2 tablespoon tomato paste
¼ teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
¼ teaspoon dried basil leaves
¼ teaspoon dried chives
1 cup water

Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the bacon, onion and garlic until the onion is soft.
Drain and rinse the beans and add them to the bot with the beans, tomato passata, tomato paste, basil, chives and water then bring to the boil.
Reduce to a simmer and then cover and cook for one hour. Stir about every 15 minutes to make sure nothing is sticking to the bottom of the pan.
Remove the lid and cook for another 15 minutes or until the sauce has thickened to how you’d like it.

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