Recipe - Cowboy Beans

One half pound Dried Pinto Beans
One half cup Chopped Smoked Ham
1 cup Chopped Onion
8 ounce Can Passata (sieved tinned
tomatoes)
4 ounce Can minced Green Chillies
One fourth cup Packed Brown Sugar
1 teaspoon Chilli Powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Dry mustard

Rinse beans. In a large saucepan combine beans and 4 cups water. Bring to
the boil; reduce heat, simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Cover and
let stand for 1 hour. (or, skip boiling the water and soak beans
overnight.)

drain and rinse beans. In the same pan combine beans and 4 cups fresh
water. Bring to the boil; reduce heat. cover and simmer for about 75
minutes or until beans are tender, stirring occasionally. drain beans,
reserving liquid. In a 2pint casserole, combine beans, ham and onion. stir
together half a cup of the bean liquid, passata, chilli peppers, brown
sugar, chilli powder, salt and mustard. Stir into bean mixture, bake,
covered, in a 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3 oven for about an hour. Uncover and bake
for about 45 minutes or more to desired consistency.

Source: Sunday Mirror Magazine

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