Mexican Baked Beans

If you love recipes with baked beans, or just beans on toast you simply need to give our delicious Mexican Baked Beans recipe a go. Its as much comforting as it is delicious and guaranteed to bring delight! In addition to the beans, we’ve gently cooked garlic, onion, bacon & our version of a Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste. It give this classic dish a lovely subtle spice and oodles of flavour. For a veggie/vegan version you can simply leave out the bacon.

This Mexican baked beans recipe makes the perfect side to either our Mexican Pulled Pork recipe or our pork meatloaf recipe.

Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste is available on Amazon Prime in the US, UK and across the EU

Prep time

10 mins
Cook time

20 mins
Total time

30 mins
Ideal for

Breakfast
Make it

Mexican
Serves

2

Nutrition: Per serving

kcal 228 fat 2.8g saturates 0.8g carbs 26.7g sugars 2.7g fibre 12.7g protein 12.1g salt 0.43g

This recipe uses

Chipotle Paste

Found in the
Mexican Section

Ingredients

1 Onion, finely chopped
1 Clove of garlic, puréed
400g / 14 oz Tin of borlotti beans
1 teaspoon Dried oregano
1 Heaped teaspoon of Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste
2 tablespoon Tomato purée
50g / 2 oz Pancetta/bacon lardons, roughly chopped (leave out for vegetarian/vegan version)
Salt and pepper to season
Flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
2/4 Slices of crusty bread

How to make it

Fry onion, garlic and Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste in a glug of olive oil over a low/medium heat until onion is nicely softened.
Add bacon/pancetta and cook for about 10 minutes.
Add borlotti beans and oregano.
Stir in tomato purée and a splash of water. Cook for 5 mins.
Add a knob of butter.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Toast some nice crusty bread.
Serve on toast with parsley, parmesan and a drizzle of olive oil.