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Tuscan Cannellini Beans Recipe – Directions And Ingredients To Make The Best Beans

Make this Tuscan cannellini beans recipe for dinner tonight and enjoy an Italian-seasoned white bean dish. There are lots of valuable nutrients in beans, including protein, so they are very useful in healthy vegan recipes.

If you have trouble digesting them, you will probably find it helpful if you don’t eat a lot of them in one meal. Here, zucchini is mixed in with the beans to help their digestion.

Makes dinner for 2-3.

Tuscan Cannellini Beans Recipe Ingredients

• 1 cup cannellini beans (cooked measure)
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• 2 chopped zucchini
• 1 Tbsp fresh rosemary (or 1 tsp dried)
• 1 Tbsp fresh oregano (or 1 tsp dried)
• pinch of sea salt
• 2 Tbsp white wine

Tuscan Cannellini Beans Recipe Directions

1. If you are using dried beans, you must cook them fully before you begin. Boil half a cup of dry beans gently for 1 hour with NO salt. To improve their digestibility, add a bit of kombu (seaweed) to the water while they cook. When picking canned beans, look for one that doesn’t have salt listed in the ingredients. Always rinse and drain canned beans before you use them.
2. Saute the garlic in olive oil in a large pan on medium heat until it softens. Stir the zucchini in to coat it in the garlic-infused oil. Leave it on the heat until it gets very soft.
3. Next, add the beans, then stir in the rosemary, oregano and salt. Pour the wine in, letting it sizzle and deglaze the pan. Leave things to simmer for at least 10 minutes so that the flavors enter the cannellini beans.
4. This dish is lovely served on its own, and also fantastic on a bed of spinach or rice.

About the Author

To watch a free video of me making this Tuscan cannellini beans recipe, so I can show you the exact techniques that will make the perfect cannellini beans, go to http://www.healthyveganrecipes.net/video/tuscan-white-beans.

Heather Nauta is a registered holistic nutritionist who teaches you how to live a healthy vegan/vegetarian lifestyle, including how to get proper nutrition, enough protein, vitamin b12 and other minerals, and how to make an amazing variety of simple, fast healthy recipes that taste incredible for you and your family.

Can someone help give recipes on how to cook dry beans?

I am on an extreme money budget. I have so many bills I need catch up on and I can’t afford to buy expensive meats. Only dry beans for now. I have rice. I have tried before but they always come out jacked up. Also- is there a fast way to cook beans besides crock pot?
Also- how would beans, eggs and rice mixed together taste?

Cooking dry beans can be tricky. First they need to be pre-soaked. Using 3 cups water for each cup of dry beans, soak the beans for 12 hours. This can be done overnight. A fast way to soak is to boil the water and add the beans. Bring to a boil again and boil for two minutes. Remove from heat, cover, and let stand for one hour. After soaking, cook the beans in the water used for soaking. The cook (simmer) time varies depending on the variety of bean. That information should be on the package.

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