Beans with tomatoes

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 6 tomatoes
• 2 250 g white beans
• 3 250 g cooked chicken
• 4 1 shallot
• 5 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 parsley
• 7 salt
• 8 pepper
• Total weight: 1,155 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 8 min.	50 min.	1 hour 55 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Prepare 6 tomatoes.
2	Peel 250 g white beans.
3	Cut 250 g cooked chicken in small pieces. Peel, wash and mince 1 shallot.
4	In a pan on medium fire, pour 2 tablespoons olive oil and when it's hot add minced shallot, salt and pepper. Make cook for 1 or 2 minutes.
5	Add peeled tomatoes, salt again and slow fire.
6	Make cook slowly, stiring from time to time, covered, until tomatoes are soft. Note: We leave pan covered to get more tomatoes juice, which will be absorbed by beans.
7	Add beans, stir and let cook until beans are soft (about 20 minutes).
8	Add chicken, stir well and let heat 5 more minutes.
9	During this time, mince parsley.
10	At the last time add parsley to the mixture, check seasoning and serve.

Remarks

If you don't have chicken, replace it with small pieces of bacon or just leave it out.
If you use tinned (canned) beans, just add them at the same time as the chicken.
For this recipe all proportions can be varied, so don't hesitate to change them according to your taste or what you have available.

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