Garlic butter beans with greens

What you need

• ·500g butter beans
• ·150g curly kale
• ·12g garlic
• ·5g red chillies
• ·0.5 lemonss
• ·8g olive oil
• ·40g wholemeal bread
• ·4g stock cubes
• ·120g frozen peas

Method

1. 1Garlic sliced thin — not crushed — into cold oil, then the heat on low. It should sizzle gently and go pale gold, never brown.
2. 2Chilli in, then the drained beans and a splash of stock. Crush a handful against the pan.
3. 3Kale on top, lid on, three minutes to steam.
4. 4Stir it all together, lemon squeezed over, and eat it with toast dragged through the bottom of the pan.

Starting the garlic in cold oil is the difference between sweet and bitter. It takes no longer.

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