Left Overs Challenge - Baked Beans

So it's time for another left overs challenge.  This time we are trying to make a second dish from left overs from the Clean Eating Baked Beans recipe.  We are going to turn the left overs into a herby bean stew with creamy corriander sweet potato mash.

So the left over ingredients we have are:

• Clean eating baked beans
• Sweet potatoes 

And what we are going to add is:

• Garlic (1-2 clovers for the mash and 1-2 cloves for the beans)
• Dried herbs
• Spinach
• Fresh corriander
• Some left over broccoli and cherry tomatoes I had in the fridge but you could use most vegetables.

Method:

First of all I made the sweet potato mash.  I used the technique that Deliciously Ella uses in her rejuvenating bowl recipe.  So follow the link and follow her recipe for the sweet potato part.  

To steam my sweet potatoes I used one of these fold-able metal steamers.  They cost about £5, they are super cheap and work a treat (try eBay or Amazon).  You just pop it in the pan with about an inch or so of water underneath, pop in the sweet potato and pop the lid in.

While your sweet potato is steaming, put some spinach in a dry hot pan and stir until the spinach wilts down.  Add to this your left over clean eating baked beans, crushed garlic, seasoning and a generous amount of dried herbs.  Stir though.  Chop your vegetables into bite size chunks and mixed this through the beans.  Cook until the vegetables are cooked through.

Once you have followed the Deliciously Ella sweet potato recipe, I just stir through some chopped corriander.  Now you are ready to serve!

Left Over Challenge - Beans

The Left Over Challenge will be a regular feature where by I need to make a new meal out of left overs of a previously blogged recipe.  Where possible I will try to only add ingredients that I already had in my cupboards.  So here goes..... the first challenge

In this post I will show you the meal I made from the left overs of the Stuffed Bean Pepper Pot recipe.

So left over I had:

• Bean mixture
• Sweet potatoes
• Spinach

The ingredients I used from my cupboards:

• Jalapenos
• Chilli poweder
• Chilli seeds
• Lemon juice
• Paprika
• Mushrooms

And here is how I did it:

• Cut the sweet potato into wedges.
• Put in a sandwich bag / freezer bag along with mushrooms, paprika, salt and pepper.
• Add a good glug of olive oil and hold the top of the bag tightly shut while you give the bag a good massage meaning all the oil and spicing coats the contents evenly.
• Put on a baking tray and add to a hot oven (220c) for around 20-30 minutes, turning once half way through.

• Add the left over beans to a pan.  Add the jalapenos, chilli powder, chilli seeds (as much or as little as you want) and a generous couple of handfuls of spinach.
• Heat through, stirring to ensure no sticking.
• Remember to taste to check your spicing and seasoning, adjust to suit your taste.
• Cook until heated through and the spinach has wilted.
• Add the lemon juice and stir through before serving.

Challenge one......... DONE.

As always, please feel free to comment and let us know what you think.  We would love to hear if you tried this recipe, or maybe you did your own invention challenge?!  Either way we would love to hear about it.