Jonas' Breakfast Beans

(3 servings)

  • 300 gram (10.5 ounces) can cannellini beans -- drained
  • 4 or 5 ripe tomatoes - chopped roughly
  • 1 small red onion - chopped finely
  • 4 garlic cloves - crushed
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1/4 cup passata
  • 2 Tablespoons fresh parsley - finely chopped
  • 2 Tablespoons fresh oregano - finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon minced chilli or chilli paste
  • 1-2 teaspoons sumac
  • 1-2 Tablespoons Greek style yoghurt
  • poached eggs and bread to serve
1. Fry onions, chilli and garlic until soft.

2. Add tomatoes and passata, sumac, bay leaf, salt and pepper then cook for approx. 20 minutes over very low heat. Stir occasionally and add more passata or water if liquid levels decrease.

3. When the tomatoes have broken down and become a sauce, add beans. Cook for 5 minutes.

4. Add fresh herbs and cook for 5 minutes more.

5. Take off heat and stir through yoghurt.

6. Serve with a poached egg and bread.


My husband made this. The beans tasted absolutely wonderful, spicy and flavorful all at once. I cannot recommend this recipe more highly.


Mr Breakfast would like to thank The Liquidator for this recipe.

Recipe number 2193. Submitted 10/22/2007.