Mojettes au beurre

Name: Mojettes au beurre
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Poitou-Charentes
Ingredients: 500 g (2½ cups) dried white beans; 1 onion; 2 garlic cloves; 1 bouquet garni; 80 g (5½ tbsp) salted butter; 1 clove; 1 tsp freshly ground pepper

Buttered mojette beans

⏱ 90 minServes 6Easy430 kcal

A recipe from Le Chaudron — the cooking of France’s regions.

01 — Ingredients6 servings

500 g (18 oz)dried white beans
1onion
2 clovesgarlic
1bouquet garni
80 g (3 oz)salted butter
1clove
1 tspfreshly ground pepper

500 g (18 oz) dried white beans
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 bouquet garni
80 g (3 oz) salted butter
1 clove
1 tsp freshly ground pepper

Serves 6. In the app, quantities adjust to the number of guests on their own — and the ingredients go straight to your shopping list.

02 — Equipment

1 large saucepan (24 cm / 9½ in)

1 bowl (3 L / 3 qt)

1 colander (24 cm / 9½ in)

1 wooden spoon

03 — Method

Soak the dried white beans overnight in a large bowl of cold water.
Drain and rinse, put in the large saucepan and cover generously with cold unsalted water so the skins don't toughen.
Stud the onion with the clove and add to the beans with the garlic (germ removed) and bouquet garni, then slowly bring to a simmer, skimming at the start.
Simmer gently a good hour until soft and creamy but still whole.
Remove the onion, garlic and bouquet garni, salt only now and pepper, then mash a ladle of beans to thicken the liquid slightly.
Stir the salted butter into the hot beans in pieces and serve on toasted country bread, as is traditional in Charentes.