Recipes: Beans Galore

First off, I hate the internet. More specifically, the providers of it. There is always some problem that they are trying to fix, or some scheduled maintenance or one of the other million excuses and thus, we have been without a consistent connection for the past 3 days. Arjan has phoned the company about 4 times and each time has been given different ‘advice’, none of which has solved the problem.

Anyhoo, if you are reading this then I have managed to get online for long enough to transfer it from a word document and upload the pictures!

I was feeling lazy this fast-day and rather than thinking up my own recipe I just found one online and gave it a try. I found this one for Cheesy bean & sweetcorn cakes and thought “cheese?! Surely not!” but heavens above, there is actual cheese in this recipe! Now, I may have mentioned it before, but Arjan is a complete cheese-fiend, I’m fairly sure he would bathe in it given the chance, so I knew this would go down well.

The recipe was very simple but I was a little sceptical as to whether this would be filling enough, but the 8 patties you get are pretty big and considering they are about 80% beans they do a good job of staving off the hunger.

I added a bit of extra chilli powder to the mix because instead of jalapenos we only had pickled peppers (the super long, pale green, mild ones) and I wanted a little spice in there. 

I would definitely suggest using this method to keep the patties separated, although I would try putting another sheet of parchment between the bottom layer and plate as they were very stuck. 

One thing I will say is that the patties did not hold together well when cooking, I suppose the egg was put in to try help with that, but it didn’t seem to at all. I had to be very careful when flipping them over and then reshape them quite a bit by pushing the edges in.

They tasted pretty good though and the salsa went very well with them (I make a mean salsa if I do say so myself).

All in all they were a success and I’ve got a second batch in the freezer just waiting for another diet day. 

BBC GoodFood has some good dieting recipes and even a slider where you can set the limits for calories per portion or you can choose what type of diet you are on. Last week I also tried these Cajun meatballs and they were awesome!