White bean scampi
Creamy white beans in a garlicky butter, lemon and chili flake sauce, just like shrimp scampi but made from a pantry can, spooned over toast for a 15-minute dinner for two.
- 15 min total
- 15 min hands-on
- Anyone can make this
- Serves 2
- About $2.58 a serving
- 730 calories
- Vegetarian
Dolly says: I’d make this on a weeknight. It’s on the table in 15 minutes.
Ingredients
For 2 servings.
- 3 tbsp butter
- 5 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 2 cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- ⅓ cup vegetable broth
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- 3 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- 2 slices sourdough bread
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan (optional)
From your pantry
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
- ½ tsp salt
Each serving has about 730 calories, 32 g protein, 96 g carbs and 26 g fat, and costs about $2.58 at typical US grocery prices. Both are estimates from what the recipe uses.
Missing something?
- No butter? Ghee works.
- No lemons? Limes work.
- No fresh parsley? Cilantro works.
- No sourdough bread? French bread works.
- No grated parmesan? Parmesan wedge works.
Steps
Tap an underlined word for a quick explanation.
the butter with the oil in a large over medium-low heat. Add the garlic and pepper flakes and cook 2 minutes, until the garlic is soft and pale .
Melt. Melting means gently heating something solid, like butter or cheese, until it turns liquid. Low or medium heat keeps it from browning or burning.
How you’ll know: It’s smooth and liquid, and butter may foam a little but hasn’t turned brown.
Skillet. A skillet is a frying pan: wide and flat with low, sloped sides. The shape lets steam escape, so food browns instead of stewing.
How you’ll know: It’s the pan you’d fry an egg in, and a 10 or 12 inch one handles most recipes.
Golden brown. Golden brown is the color of good toast, somewhere between yellow and light brown. It means the outside is cooked and crisp but not burnt.
How you’ll know: It looks like toast and smells toasty; dark brown with a bitter smell means it went too far.
Low heatTimer: 2 min
Dolly’s tip: Low heat is the key. You want soft, sweet garlic, not browned bits.Add the beans, broth and salt, turn the heat to medium, and 4 to 5 minutes, gently mashing a few beans, until the sauce turns creamy.
Simmer. Simmering means keeping a liquid just below a boil, with small bubbles rising gently. It cooks food evenly and lets a sauce thicken without scorching on the bottom.
How you’ll know: Small, lazy bubbles break the surface every second or so, and nothing is churning.
Medium heatTimer: 4 min
Take it off the heat and stir in the lemon zest, juice and parsley.
Toast the bread.
Spoon the beans and all the garlicky butter over the toast and top with parmesan.
Plan this in Dollop, and get the grocery list
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