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Mexican beans and fruit

Ingredients

  • ½ medium–sized to large pineapple
  • 2 green apples
  • juice of ½ lemon
  • 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 3 ripe tomatoes, preferably roma tomatoes, diced
  • 1 teaspoon hot chilli powder or Tabasco sauce, or more to taste
  • 2 cans borlotti beans, about 400 g each, drained
  • salt
  • fresh coriander to serve

Preparation

  1. First, prepare the fruit.
  2. Peel the pineapple and cut out the core.
  3. Cut a few fine sticks of pineapple for the garnish and chop the rest into bite–sized chunks.
  4. Core the apples; cut half of one apple into thin wedges for the garnish and cut the remainder into dice.
  5. Put the fruit for the garnish in a bowl, sprinkle with the lemon juice and toss to coat.
  6. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
  7. Heat the oil in a saucepan and cook the onions with the garlic over a moderately high heat until they are lightly browned and softened.
  8. Add the diced apples and continue to cook, stirring frequently, until the dice are brown in places.
  9. Add the chunks of pineapple and cook for a further 2–3 minutes, stirring.
  10. Add the tomatoes and chilli powder or Tabasco sauce and continue to cook for 10–15 minutes, or until the mixture is sauce–like in consistency.
  11. Add the beans to the mixture in the pan and stir.
  12. Continue to cook over a low heat for 5–10 minutes to mix and mingle the flavours.
  13. Season to taste with salt.
  14. Garnish the beans and fruit with the reserved pineapple sticks and apple wedges and leaves of fresh coriander, and serve hot.
  15. For a Mexican–style presentation, accompany with flour tortillas plus a raw vegetable salad.

Serves 4
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: about 35 minutes

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Source: Fresh fruit and desserts
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