Butter Beans and Courgette in Lemon Sauce with Olive-Walnut Salsa
- ⏱ 12 hours 5 minutes
- Easy
- Serves 4
- 👥 2-cook recipe
Warm or room-temperature butter beans and courgette are coated in a bound lemon butter sauce and topped with olive-walnut salsa.
Adapted from Briljante bonen.
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Butter Beans and Co...
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COOK 1COOK 2
1Mise en place
Prep 500 g butter beans: rinse and drain
2Prepare dried beans
3Plate and serve
+ 13 more steps in the app
Butter Beans and Co...
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COOK 2COOK 1
1Mise en place
2Prepare dried beans
If using dried beans, soak and cook the beans...
3Plate and serve
+ 13 more steps in the app
Ingredients
- 500 g butter beans (rinsed and drained)
- olive oil, to taste
- 2 courgettes (diagonally sliced into 5 mm thick slices)
- 2 garlic cloves (finely chopped or grated)
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 50 g butter
- 1 organic lemon (zested and juiced)
- olive-walnut salsa, to taste
The full plan
Split between two cooks — each step says who's on it.
1. Mise en place COOK 2
- Prep 500 g butter beans: rinse and drain
2. Prepare dried beans COOK 1
- If using dried beans, soak and cook the beans according to the instructions on page 12
3. Slice the courgettes COOK 2
- Diagonally slice the courgettes into 5 mm thick slices
4. Heat the oil COOK 1
- In a frying pan, heat a splash of olive oil over high heat
5. Brown the courgette COOK 1
- In the frying pan, add the courgette in batches and fry on both sides until golden brown
🤝 Cook 2 hands over the courgettes.
6. Prepare the garlic COOK 2
- Finely chop or grate the garlic cloves
7. Prepare the lemon COOK 1
- Zest and juice the organic lemon
8. Fry the garlic COOK 2
- In the frying pan, add the garlic to the last batch and fry it along for 2 minutes
- In the frying pan, return all the courgette and season the whole well with salt and pepper
🤝 Cook 1 hands over the courgette.
9. Warm the beans COOK 2
- In the frying pan, add the butter beans and let them warm over medium-high heat
- In the frying pan, crush about 20 beans to create an extra creamy sauce later
🤝 Cook 2 picks up the beans.
10. Bind the sauce COOK 2
- In the frying pan, add the butter and let it melt
- In the frying pan, stir the lemon zest and juice through
- Turn the heat slightly higher and keep the pan moving to cook the thin sauce down into a nicely bound butter sauce
- Taste and, if necessary, season further with salt and pepper
🤝 Cook 1 hands over the lemon.
11. Plate and serve BOTH
- On a beautiful serving platter, divide the courgette, butter beans and sauce
- Spoon plenty of olive-walnut salsa over it just before serving
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