Butter bean, lemon & herb pâté with melba toast

Butter bean, lemon & herb pâté with melba toast

A new spread for your toast - and butter beans are the hero ingredient

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 10 mins
Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Put the butter beans, lemon juice and zest, garlic, cumin and coriander in a processor with 4 tbsp olive oil and lots of seasoning. Whizz until smooth or pulse for a chunkier texture. Serve with extra oil drizzled over and hot melba toast.
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80g (3 heaped tbsp) butter beans counts as 1 portion of your five-a-day vegetables.

Per serving

191 kcalories, protein 7g, carbohydrate 15.4g, fat 11.7 g, saturated fat 1.5g, fibre 5.3g, salt 1.05 g

Recipe from olive magazine, November 2006.

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  • 20 February 2008

    KATE'S KAFE commented on this recipe

    Very easy to make and although looks very "pale and uninteresting" it does taste very good, maybe chopped coriander on the top to garnish would help.

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  • 02 April 2008

    Nicola rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I prefer humous, this was a bit bland even though I added extra garlic.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 10 mins
Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Ingredients

  • 2 x 400g tins of butter beans , drained and rinsed
  • 1 lemon , juiced and zested
  • olive oil
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 1 garlic clove , crushed
  • a small handful of coriander , roughly chopped
  • melba toast triangles, to serve
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Per serving

191 kcalories, protein 7g, carbohydrate 15.4g, fat 11.7 g, saturated fat 1.5g, fibre 5.3g, salt 1.05 g

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