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Caribbean Red Bean & Cashew Savouries


Cooking time: 20 minutes
Vegan

Makes 50

Ingredients

30ml/2tbsp Vegetable oil
1 Onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 Cloves garlic, crushed
225g/8oz Tin cooked kidney beans, drained & mashed
100g/4oz Cashew nuts, finely ground
25g/1oz Plain flour
15m/1tbsp Soy sauce
2ml/¼tsp Cayenne pepper
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Extra vegetable oil

To serve

1 Pineapple or Papaya, cubed
1 Small packet of coriander leaves

Method

Heat the oil in a large frying pan, fry the onion & garlic until soft.

Remove pan from the heat, add the mashed beans, ground cashews nuts, flour, soy sauce and cayenne pepper. Season with salt and black pepper and stir until mixture fully binds together.

Take a teaspoonful of the mixture and roll into small balls in the palm of the hand. Brush them all over with vegetable oil.

Place them on an oiled baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C/350F/Gas Mark 4 for 10 minutes.

Carefully turn the cakes over and bake them for a further 10 minutes.

Serve hot or warm on cocktail sticks with pineapple/papaya chunks & coriander leaves dip into the Coriander & Chilli Sauce.

Can be made in advance and frozen. Cook from frozen at 180°C for 10 minutes.


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