Login Sign Up

Follow Nigella on: Facebook Twitter Vimeo Pinterest

WHITE BEAN MASH

WHITE BEAN MASH

Related Nigella Recipes

Related Community Recipes

Serves: 2

Print
  • Express Recipe
  • Gluten Free
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian

This is a garlicky, lemony, ultra-fabulous, utterly addictive bean mash. It's the perfect accompaniment to the Flash-Fried Steak.

Recipe posted by

Join in and share one of your own recipes

Add a Recipe

Ingredients

Switch to Cup Measures
  • 60 ml olive oil (plus 2 teaspoons)
  • most of 1 clove garlic (crushed)
  • 1 sprig fresh rosemary (optional)
  • grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
  • 1230 grams white beans (3 cans)
  • salt (to taste)
  • pepper (to taste)
NIGELLA EXPRESS

As featured in

NIGELLA EXPRESS

Method

  1. Put the 60ml / ¼ cup of olive oil in a saucepan, and mix in the garlic. Add the whole rosemary sprig, if using, and the lemon zest and warm through.
  2. Remove the rosemary, but do not throw away.
  3. Drain the beans and rinse under a tap to get rid of the gloop and then add to the pan and warm through, stirring and squishing with a wide, flat spoon so that the beans go into a nobbly mush. Season to taste; some beans come saltier than others.

Tried this recipe?

Why not leave a comment or a suggestion?

Please note, questions and queries for the nigella.com
team cannot be answered here - please instead submit
any questions as "Kitchen Queries".

Add Comment

  • Surely 3 x 400g tines would serve more than two people! Even two very hungry people.I do a similar recipe and I use 2 tins for a dip for lots of people.

    Posted by travelqueen on 24th Jun 2011 at 22.00

  • 3 tins for 2 people seems a huge amount?

    Posted by travelqueen on 24th Jun 2011 at 22.01

  • I made this for six and served it with slow cooked lamb shanks Provencal. I mixed Borlotti and Butter beans and used flat leaf parsley. Went down a treat! Also mixed butter & oil rather than straight oil. Careful with the salt...!

    Posted by pelligrino on 1st Sep 2011 at 4.47

  • I am so addicted to this!!! I easily eat a tin of mashed beans to myself. Yum yum! A very quick & tasty side dish I use regularly & the kids love it too!!

    Posted by Kylicious on 25th Jun 2012 at 1.02

  • This sounds interesting. Will ty it tonight with pan fried pork loin... with a butter, white wine and fennel jus. Yum!

    Posted by spainbuddy on 29th Oct 2012 at 15.45

  • YUM YUM! Made this in the kitchen in work for a quick lunch with some packet sliced piri piri chicken. I didn't have garlic or rosemary, or lemon juice, but it was bloomin' lovely regardless. I know it'll be ten times better once I've made it properly at home. Nigella does it again!

    Posted by wynmasterfunk on 13th Nov 2012 at 17.06

  • This is a really great recipe, I also tried it with broad beans. I used cauliflour as well but it is better to blend it using this.

    Posted by Jo9599 on 27th Jan 2013 at 23.10