Good ingredients to pair with beans
Tomatoes and spices create a stew or chilli, while rice, potatoes and tortillas make the meal more filling. Eggs and cheese are helpful when you want a quick bean breakfast or a simple quesadilla-style dinner.
Easy beans meal ideas
- bean chilli — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- beans and rice — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- breakfast hash — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- bean quesadillas — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
How to get the best from beans
Rinse canned beans if you want a cleaner flavour and drain them well before adding them to a pan. Give them time to absorb the sauce and seasoning; they become more satisfying when they are part of the dish rather than added at the last minute.
Turn a few ingredients into a coherent dinner
Choose a base, a flavour direction and one or two supporting ingredients. For example, rice or potatoes can make the meal filling, while lemon and garlic, tomato and herbs, soy and chilli, or curry spices can give the ingredients a clear direction.
Make the idea fit your evening
The same ingredient can produce a very different answer depending on whether you need dinner in 20 minutes, want one pan, are feeding four people or need to use another ingredient before it goes to waste. Add those constraints before choosing the final recipe.
Use SIZZIO to make it specific
Tell SIZZIO what you have, how many people you are feeding and what kind of meal you want. You can then save the recipe and move into the cooking flow instead of starting another search when it is time to cook.