Sunday, 5 January 2020

Bean and Vegetable Bake

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! and here is the first recipe of the Year!
A very simple and quick recipe, which I tried over the weekend. The best part is that you can make your own variations too :)

Ingredients-
1 packet Mushrooms (200 gms)
100 gms Baby Corn
Spinach- 2 bunch (roughly 4-5 cups, shredded)
1 slice bread (churn in a mixer for crumbs)
Salt, Pepper, Chilly flakes
Baked Beans- 1 cup
2 tbsps Butter
Mozzarella Cheese- 4 tbsp

White Sauce
1 1/2 tbsp butter
1/2 onion Chopped
1 tsp minced Garlic
1 1/2 tbsp maida
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper

Method

1. In a Big Pan, put about 1 tbsp butter and put in the shredded spinach. Cook till all water is evaporated. It'll be reduced to 1/4 th of the actual quantity. Mix in the bread crumbs and Salt & Pepper to taste



2. Spread this mix in a baking dish



















3.  Spread Baked beans on this layer of Spinach



















4. Cut Baby Corn into 1/4" pieces. Remove stalk of mushroom and cut into half, vertically. Cut mushroom into 4 pieces. Add little butter in another pan and saute mushroom and babycorn together, till brown specs appear. Add chilly flakes, salt and pepper to taste


* This picture is a little hazy, because of the steam. However, it will give you an idea about how it cooks. You can also see green particles, that's because I have used the same pan, that I used to cook spinach. Would suggest you to use another pan as the bread in the spinach sticks to the pan and might give a burnt taste to your veggies.











5. Spread the veggies over the baked beans layer















6. To make the white sauce, in a pan add butter, garlic and onion, saute till onion is transparent. Add Maida and Milk, keep stirring to avoid any lumps. Add salt and pepper. Pour this over the veggies and sprinkle Mozzarella Cheese on top
7. Bake this at 200 degrees, preheated oven. Serve with Garlic Bread or enjoy it as meal in itself.