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Perfect Shell Beans
Fresh or soaked dried beans simmered gently with rosemary, chile, bay and garlic, salted in stages and cooled in their own liquid so they come out creamy and whole, with a savoury broth worth saving.
- YieldMakes about 4 cups cooked beans plus their broth; serves 4
- Hands-on35 min
- Total1 h 48 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 600 gfresh shell beans, shelled, about 4 cups (from roughly 1.4 kg beans in the pod); or 350 g / 2 cups dried beans, soaked overnight and drained
- 1 sprigrosemary, big
- 1small whole dried red chile
- 1 leafbay leaf
- 1 clovegarlic, smashed and peeled
- 2½ tspkosher salt, 1 1/2 tsp at the start and a heaping 1 tsp midway, more to taste at the end
- 1.9 Lwater, about 8 cups for fresh beans, 10 cups (2.4 l) for dried
- 60 mlextra-virgin olive oil, in two additions: a glug midway and another at the end
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