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Smoky Black Bean Bake with Herby Sour Cream

Feeds: 4-6
Takes: 1 hours

Ingredients

Quick Pickled Onion

1 red onion, very finely sliced

2 limes, juiced + zested

Squeeze of honey or agave

For the beans

2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

5 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced

4 tbsp tomato paste

1½ tsp smoked paprika

1 smokey chilli like ancho or chipotle, finely chopped - reduce or increase as to your tolerance! (chefs hack: if using dried chilli, snip them with scissors)

1 tsp ground cumin

1 x 570g Queen Black Beans with their bean stock

180 g grated cheddar

Herby Sour Cream

4 tablespoons of sour cream or creme fraiche

A small bunch of coriander (roughly 15 g)

Optional: Tortilla chips, to serve

Substitutions

Ancho/chipotle chilli - ½ tsp chilli flakes

Sour cream - greek yoghurt or a dairy free alternative

Cheddar - mozzarella with a few gratings of parmesan

Directions

1

Heat the oven to 220° Celsius.

2

First pickle your onions by mixing them with the lime juice in a small bowl with a squeeze of honey or agave and a pinch of salt. Set aside.

3

In a big oven-proof saucepan, heat the olive oil over a medium-high heat. Fry the garlic until lightly golden, about 1 minute. Stir in the tomato paste, paprika, ancho and cumin (be careful of splattering), and fry for 30 seconds, reducing the heat as needed to prevent the garlic from burning.

4

Add the beans, with their bean stock and generous pinches of salt and pepper, you may need to add a bit more water or stock here, you want it to be a molten porridge-like consistency. Simmer on a low heat for 8-10 minutes until you achieve this.

5

Sprinkle the cheese evenly over the top then bake until the cheese has melted, 5 to 10 minutes.

6

While the beans are cooking, put all of the herby sour cream ingredients into a food processor (coriander stalks and all), pour the lime juice from the red onions into it too, then whizz until smooth. Season to taste.

7

When the beans are browned, leave to sit for a few minutes before serving into bowls, dolloped with the sour cream and pickled onions.

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