Garlic White Bean Mash In A Flash Recipes

Canned beans and chickpeas are perfect for mashing when you need a speedy side dish

Provided by Good Food team

Categories     Dinner, Side dish, Supper

Time 15m

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

When I was a child, steak houses always had something called minute steak, as in minnit, on the menu, economically attractive portions that needed a mere 60 seconds to cook through. In our house they were pronounced mynuoot steaks, as if in baffled disappointment at the meagreness of the meat provided. It's hard to throw off the idea that a steak should be something chunky and big enough to get your teeth into and I certainly like my meat rare. When I'm asked at a restaurant how I want my steak cooked, I tell them just to hit it on the head and walk it straight through. So I can do a proper, fleshly steak supper pretty damn fast, but when you're really up against it, this is the perfect almost-instant dinner. Under 5 minutes is what I'm talking about from start to finish - and that isn't bad. I could hone it down by sticking to the minute steak idea, and it's fine, only there's something like little school dinners about those sad little straggly rags of steam. This is my compromise: slender but still substantial steak that cooks for 90 seconds a side. And in that time, I've produced a garlicky, lemony, ultra-fabulous, utterly addictive bean mash. The recipe makes enough for 4, more if there are children eating too, but I have to come clean and say that I don't quite halve the amounts for the mash when there are just 2 of us eating. This is just too good, and I simply go down to two cans and a little less of everything else. I'm afraid I don't really want to reduce anything at all.

Provided by Nigella Lawson : Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Time 25m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

This is a garlicky, lemony, ultra-fabulous, utterly addictive bean mash.

Provided by Nigella

Yield Serves: approx. 4 - depending on what you serve it with

Number Of Ingredients 7

• Ingredients

This spread has a long shelf life - it can be refrigerated for up to 2 weeks - and can be pulled out for impromptu entertaining.

Provided by USA WEEKEND columnist Pam Anderson

Categories     Appetizers and Snacks     Dips and Spreads Recipes     Bean Dip Recipes

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 48.2 calories, Carbohydrate 6.2 g, Fat 1.8 g, Fiber 1.4 g, Protein 2.1 g, SaturatedFat 0.3 g, Sodium 1.5 mg, Sugar 0.1 g