Food writer Melek Erdal suggests elevating baked beans by toasting spices like cumin and coriander, adding a medley of ginger, garlic, and chili, then baking with feta for a more dynamic flavor. Eleanor Maidment also incorporates chorizo and red peppers for her twist, emphasizing that savory ingredients balance the sweetness of beans. Felicity Cloake advises viewing beans as a base for quick tomato-based dishes, using various herbs and spices to expand the flavor profiles, thus transforming them into hearty stews that invite creativity in cooking.
Essentially, when it comes to injecting flavour into baked beans, it's all about the base, which means toasting spices in an ovenproof pan.
Each tin is the start of any number of quick, tomato-based bean dishes... you can fry chopped onion, ginger, or diced carrot and celery.
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