A Really Good Five-Minute Dinner

A fewer months ago, I came location with my five-year-old aft a precise agelong Sunday of activities and schlepping. Both of america were cranky and successful request of aboriginal bedtime, and I was successful nary mode up for cooking. It was 1 of those nights wherever you truly privation to bid takeout, but you conscionable did that the nighttime before.

In a last-ditch effort, I grabbed a tin of beans successful herb condiment from the cabinet, past looked successful the fridge for thing to oomph it up a bit. Mozzarella? Sure. I threw the beans successful a cookware with a fistful of shredded mozz, on with immoderate spinach, warmed it up for 2 minutes, past scooped it onto a portion of sandwich bread. “Pizza beans!” I declared, due to the fact that sometimes ya gotta merchantability it. And frankly, my furniture concoction did not look peculiarly appetizing. Still, I figured it would sensation okay, due to the fact that herb condiment and mozzarella usually do. Then I took a wound from the heap of enigma beans, and to my astonishment, it was PHENOMENAL. Savory and saucy and gooey. It was truthful overmuch amended than a can-of-beans-plus-the-first-thing-I-saw-in-the-fridge had immoderate close to be.

I present marque it regularly, adjacent erstwhile I person much than 5 minutes to marque dinner. It’s lukewarm and filling and ace flexible and tastes large with immoderate leftover veg you person hanging successful your fridge, similar cauliflower oregon zucchini.

Five-Minute Saucy, Cheesy Beans
Serves 1-2

1 tin of achromatic oregon gigante beans successful herb condiment (I utilized these, but immoderate marque works! Just marque definite it’s savory condiment — not sweet, similar Heinz baked beans)
1 scant fistful of shredded mozzarella
1-2 cups of babe spinach, oregon chopped cauliflower, broccoli, oregon immoderate chunky rootlike you person knocking astir the nutrient bin

Pour beans into a tiny saucepan (make definite to scrape retired each that yummy sauce!), and acceptable it implicit a debased heat. Scatter mozzarella implicit the apical and disturbance until it melts and everything is lukewarm and gooey. Stir veggies successful for a minute, past crook disconnected the heat.

Serve successful heaping scoops implicit a portion of sandwich bread, oregon connected its ain successful a bowl. This makes a precise hearty serving for 1 — oregon two, if you’re sharing it with a five-year-old who’s much bushed than hungry. The bully quality is it truly does instrumentality 5 minutes max. Rather than marque a large batch up front, I’d suggest starting with 1 and conscionable leaving the cookware unwashed until meal is decidedly over.

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