I tried my hand at home-made Baked Beans. [View all]

[DetlefK]

Amounts just approximately.
- a bit less than a pound of white beans, soaked over night
- about half a pound of fresh pork-belly, sliced in 1 inch pieces
- 1 onion, diced
- 1-2 garlic cloves, minced
- a half-an-inch piece of ginger, minced
- salt, pepper
- 1 teaspoon of tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1-2 cans of canned tomato
- 1 tablespoon of brown sugar

1.
Boil beans for 45 minutes until soft, pour out water, set aside.

2.
While the beans boil, stir-fry the pork-belly, onion, garlic, ginger, salt, pepper in a pan. When it's pretty much done, add the tomato-paste and fry a little bit more. Set aside.

3.
In a large bowl (or use the pot where you boiled the beans), mix the beans, the pork-stuff, the mustard, the canned tomato and the brown sugar. Pour into a baking-dish. Carefully add water on top until everything is barely covered.

4.
In the oven, medium to high heat for about 1 hour. (It's said that the longer you bake it, the better it gets, but I didn't taste a difference between 1 hour and 3 hours.)
If your baking-dish has a lid, you can pretty much bake it for hours without needing to check or to add water.