Best Mangetout Beans For Eating With Ham Or Roast Lamb Recipes
LEG OF LAMB WITH WHITE BEANS
Based on a wonderful recipe from McCall's Cooking School, Meat #22. The intro says, "Lamb and beans the French way. To most Americans, accustomed to pork with their beans, lamb with white beans is an unusual combination. But it's an everyday meal to the French, particularly those from Brittany. The beans are cooked until tender, combined with garlic, onion, herbs and plum tomatoes, then cooked again for several hours with the lamb. We like our roast lamb fairly well done, while the French prefer it pink. A meat thermometer is a great help in roasting it to just the right degree."
Provided by mersaydees
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 7h
Yield 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Rinse and drain beans. In a 6-quart kettle, combine beans with 6 cups cold water. Bring to boiling; reduce heat and simmer 2 minutes. Cover; remove from heat; let stand 1 hour. Drain beans, reserving lequid. Measure liquid. Add water to make 2 quarts.
- Return beans and their liquid to kettle; bring to the boil. Reduce heat and cover; simmer gently for 1 hour, or just until beans are tender but not mushy. Place beans in colander and drain. Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Peel 1 clove of the garlic, and crush in garlic press.
- Heat butter in large skillet; saute sliced onion and crushed garlic until golden -- about 10 minutes.
- In shallow roasting pan, combine cooked beans, onion mixture, 1/2 teaspoon rosemary, 1/2 teaspoon thyme, 2 teaspoons salt, the pepper and tomatoes; mix well.
- Pat lamb dry with paper towels; trim off most of the fat. Using a paring knife, make 6 small slits in in flesh. Peel 2 cloves garlic; cut into slivers; insert slivers of garlic in each slit in surface. Sprinkle lamb with the remaining rosemary, thyme and salt.
- Arrange leg of lamb on top of beans; insert meat thermometer into the meatiest part of leg -- do not let it rest against the bone.
- Roast, uncovered, 3 to 3 1/2 hours, or to 175°F on meat thermometer, for well done. Roast 20 minutes less for medium-well or pink.
- To serve: Remove lamb to heated platter or carving board. Allow roast to stand about 20 minutes before carving for easier slicing. With long, sharp knife, cut long, thin, flat slices from leg. Spoon beans around lamb. Garnish with parsley.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 888.3, Fat 48.4, SaturatedFat 21.5, Cholesterol 224.9, Sodium 921.1, Carbohydrate 40.8, Fiber 13.5, Sugar 8.1, Protein 70.9
EASY FRENCH CASSOULET WITH WINE, BEANS, SAUSAGE, HAM AND HERBS
This cassoulet is a wonderful and EASY one-pan variation of the French classic! Great, warming comfort food that takes the chill off in the colder months. Very hearty and welcoming to come home to after a winter's walk or some sledding fun! Serve the steaming cassoulet in bowls accompanied with a baguette or corn bread, a tossed salad, and a nice glass of cider or wine. ENJOY! Notes: Chopped kielbasa will work in place of the bulk pork sausage, and ground allspice in place of the cloves. Also dry white vermouth in place of dry white wine, is good. Can be baked in a 2-quart size casserole dish (deep rather than shallow), if you do not have a Dutch oven.
Provided by BecR2400
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 1h50m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a large oven-proof skillet such as a Le Creuset or Dutch oven cook sausage, onion, and garlic over medium-low heat until meat is lightly browned and onion is tender; drain off fat.
- Add ham, parsley, and bay leaf; mix well. Stir in undrained beans, wine, and cloves.
- Bake, covered, at 325°F for 45 minutes.
- Uncover and bake 40 to 45 minutes longer, stirring occasionally. Remove bay leaf.
- Serve in bowls with butter and a baguette or hot corn bread, if desired.
- Makes 6 servings.
"MANGETOUT BEANS" FOR EATING WITH HAM OR ROAST LAMB
I was wary of the idea of eating the pods until I grew my own beans; young vegetables tempt in a way that full-sized specimens often don't. The recipe is only worth doing when you can get your hands on unblemished beans without the cotton-wool lining to their pods and no longer than a middle finger. If you can catch them at this point in their lives, then you can eat them whole, like mangetout (snow peas). Serve warm, with thick pieces of bread or as a side dish for roast lamb or cold ham.
Yield enough for 4
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Warm the olive oil in a large pan. Peel and finely chop the onion and add it to the oil. Cut the bacon into bite-sized chunks and stir it into the softening onion. The bacon fat should turn pale gold; the onion should soften without color.
- Put the fava bean pods into the pan and pour in the water. Bring to a boil, then decrease to a light simmer, and simmer for fifteen to twenty minutes, until the pods have lost their bright color and are meltingly tender.
- Coarsely chop the fresh mint and stir it into the beans. Serve with a thick wedge of lemon to squeeze over, and torn hunks of crusty bread to mop up some of the golden olive oil dressing.
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