How to Cook Bean and Sausage Hotpot

Serves: 2

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 20 mins

Ingredients needed to make Bean and Sausage Hotpot:

• 4 pork sausages
• 4 rashers back bacon, smoked and roughly chopped
• 14 oz kidney beans, drained
• 14 oz cannellini beans, drained
• 1 large leek, sliced
• 1 broccoli head, cut into florets
• 4 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
• 1 smoked garlic clove, roughly chopped
• 5 oz small button mushrooms
• 1 pint beef stock
• 4 tsp tomato puree
• 8 oz cheddar cheese
• 1 baguette, thinly sliced
• Handful of parsley, finely chopped
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Cooking instructions for Bean and Sausage Hotpot:

• Pour a tbsp of oil in a frying pan and heat it over moderate flame.
• Throw in the mushrooms as well as pork sausages and stir-fry for about 10 minutes or until they brown and the sausages are nearly cooked.
• Transfer them to a bowl and set aside until they are cool enough to be handled.
• Once cooled, chop the sausages into thick slices and set aside.
• Heat rest of the oil in the same pan and stir-fry the bacons for a minute.
• Add the garlic and continue to saute them for another couple of minutes or until the bacons turn crispy golden brown and the garlic softens.
• Stir in the leeks and saute further for about 5 minutes or untl they are cooked properly.
• Add the tomatoes along with the tomato puree and give it a nice stir.
• Leave the sauce to simmer for about 5 minutes before pouring in the broth and return the sausage slices-mushroom mixture back to the pan.
• Continue to simmer the sauce for about 10 minutes or until the sausages are cooked through.
• Add both kinds of beans to the sauce and stir them well together to distribute evenly throughout the mixture.
• Cook the mixture over moderate heat and then reduce the flame to minimum and keep the mixture warm.
• Drop the brocolli florets into boiling salted water and cook them for about 4-5 minutes to until they soften; drain and set aside.
• Warm up our oven at medium temperature and toast the bread slices in it.
• Flip it over and sprinkle the grated cheese over them.
• Return the slices to the oven and continue to grill until the cheese melts.
• Ladle the simmering hotpot into a large serving bowl and top it up with the cooked broccoli.
• Sprinkle the parsley on top and serve along with the grilled cheese toast.

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