White beans with tomato and pork belly
Ingredients
For
6
personnes
- 6 slices of pork belly
- 300 g of dried white beans (such as ‘Mogettes de Vendée IGP’)
- 800 g of diced tomato flesh
- 2 teaspoons of tomato purée
- 2 onions
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 bunch of flat-leaf parsley
- 3 bay leaves
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil from Nîmes PDO
- Salt and pepper
Tip
If you’re short on time, use ready-cooked white beans (just skip step 1) and add the bay leaf and crushed garlic clove in step 2. You can crisp the bacon slices in the oven.
Instructions
- The day before, soak the white beans.
- The next day, drain the beans and then place them in a large saucepan of boiling water with the bay leaves, the peeled clove of garlic and a whole, peeled onion. Cook for 1 hour.
- Halfway through cooking the beans, start preparing the sauce: finely chop the remaining onion. Fry it in a large frying pan with PDO olive oil from Nîmes, then add the tomato purée and cook for 5 minutes. Add the diced tomatoes, season and continue cooking for 20 minutes.
- Heat a frying pan and dry-fry the slices of pork belly for 5 minutes on each side.
- Remove from the heat and add the drained beans to the tomato sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon a ladleful of beans in tomato sauce onto each plate and top with a slice of grilled pork belly. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and drizzle with a little Nîmes olive oil PDO. Serve immediately.
Tip
If you’re short on time, use ready-cooked white beans (just skip step 1) and add the bay leaf and crushed garlic clove in step 2. You can crisp the bacon slices in the oven.
We recommend...
For this recipe, we recommend an PDO huile d'olive de Nîmes (intense flavour) for its herbaceous aromas and notes of hay, pineapple, yellow plum and raw artichoke, possibly complemented by red plum and apple.
Don’t have any? Then choose an intense-flavoured olive oil from another PDO range: huile d'olive de la Vallée des Baux-de-Provence PDO, PDO huile d'olive de Provence, PDO huile d'olive du Languedoc, PDO huile d'olive de Haute-Provence, PDO huile d'olive de Corse - Oliu di Corsica, PDO huile d'olive d'Aix-en-Provence.
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