The day is hectic, work seems never-ending, and when you get home, you need to recover energy with a good, healthy, genuine, and tasty meal. What better way than combining the great taste of sausage to delight the palate with that of legumes to quickly recover the lost energy during the day?
Sausage and Beans is a hearty but exceptional and genuine dish from Italian cuisine, hard to resist.
If you are lovers of traditions and simple, tasty dishes, this is the recipe for you. You will only need a few modest ingredients like sausage, beans, and tomato sauce to create an ideal and perfect second course for lunch or dinner for the whole family, or if you want to impress your friends during dinner parties.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 10 Minutes
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter
- Energy 1,475.42 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 126.27 (g) of which sugars 4.04 (g)
- Proteins 99.84 (g)
- Fat 66.18 (g) of which saturated 0.69 (g)of which unsaturated 1.20 (g)
- Fibers 31.25 (g)
- Sodium 3,604.27 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 490 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups white beans (cannellini)
- 14 oz pork sausage, fresh, cooked, in a pan
- 1 glass red wine
- 2 cups tomato puree
- 1 tomato
- 1 stalk celery
- 4 leaves bay
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1.5 l water
- 1 drizzle extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pinch salt
Tools
- 1 Pan
Steps
Regardless of the type of sausage we use, we will fry it to brown it on all sides in a large, high-sided pan with extra virgin olive oil, garlic, rosemary, and bay leaves.
As soon as the sausage is well browned on all sides, I removed all the spices and added the white cannellini beans that I had already prepared beforehand. Here is the recipe for how to cook dried beans or alternatively, you can safely use pre-cooked canned beans.
After adding the beans and letting them cook with the sausages for a few minutes, just the time to bring everything to the same temperature, we will add the tomato sauce and cook with the lid on for about 30 minutes or until the tomato sauce is well thickened and rich.
In particular, let’s prepare attention to the cooking of the sausage and if necessary, we will add a little hot water as needed until it is well cooked.
Finally, turn off the gas and after letting it rest for 10 minutes, plate and serve.
The sausage and beans are ready to eat and enjoy.
Bon appétit from Dadcook!
FAQ
Can I use any type of beans?
For the sausage and beans recipe, you can use pretty much all types of beans we are used to consuming, but personally, I would not use white Spanish beans or large-sized beans like these. Let’s say the ones that are best suited for this type of preparation remain the white cannellini beans, black beans, red beans, or black-eyed peas.
