12/1/10

Baked Bean - Pasulj


Ingredients required for 6 people
# 1/2 kg of large white bean ("tetovac")
# 1/2kg of onion
# 1 tea spoon of "aleva paprika" (ground red pepper)
# 1 chili pepper if you wish


# 1 leaf of laurel (Laurus nobilis)
# 1 dl of oil
# pepper and salt as you wish

Put beans in cold water and leave it to boil for a 10 minutes. Than percolate it and put in new water. Add laurel, salt and pepper and cook it for 1 hour. Take care not to disintegrate grains. Brais-fry onion in the warm oil until it mollify. Spice onion with sat and pepper, and add "aleva paprika". Mix it well.

When beans are scald percolate it, but keep water in which you cook it. Beans put in pan with onion, add 1/3 of rest water and mix it again. If you wish, add one chili pepper.

You can also add smoked bacon, sausage, ham or shank. The taste is much better.


Roast it in the oven until it get umber crust. (about one hour on 180 *C)

Serve hot or cold, with meat or as fast meal.