Lima Bean Casserole
"This is a good side dish for BBQ's. I like to spice it up with a couple of jalapenos or hotsauce, It's up to your personal taste"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 3 1 lb fresh lima beans or 1 lb frozen lima beans, cooked until tender
- 1⁄4 lb bacon, chopped fried until translucent
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
- salt
- 3⁄4 cup grated monterey jack cheese
directions
- If you are using fresh or frozen cover the beans with water and bring to a boil, skim the surface& simmer untiltender about 25 minutes for fresh, 6 minutes for frozen.
- Canned Lima beans just heat& drain throughly.
- Grease an oven proof pan (Deep Casserole).
- Fry the bacon until translucent,m add onions& pepper saute for about 6 minutes Add beans and cook until hot, stirring frequently About 5 minutes.
- Add tomatoe sauce& stewed tomatoes.
- Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Uncover and simmer until most of the juice has evaporated about 20 minutes.
- Pour into the casserole dish.
- You can do the recipe up to here the day ahead, refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before putting in the oven) Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Sprinkle with the cheese, bake until hot with the cheese is melted and lightly browned Apprx 20-25 minutes.
- If you are going from start to finish with this recipe without refrigerating you will only want to have it in the oven for apprx 15 minutes just to get the lovely color to the cheese and have it bubbly
- Serve immediately - hot
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Reviews
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Lima beans are a nice change from the usual bbq summer bean casseroles, this is an especially good one. I made this the night before and put it in the oven when our roast was almost done. The only change I made was to add a couple of smashed cloves of garlic. It makes a big casserole, so we enjoyed it for supper and then I froze the rest of it. It will probably be even better after the flavours meld, thanks for another keeper Bergy!
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Bergy
Small town in the Okanagan, B.C.
On January 10 2010 I will celebrate 9 years of Life with Zaar. I can't imagine being without it! It has become part of my daily routine.
I feel very privileged to be one of the hosts on the Photo Forum. Taking photos of my culinary efforts is a full time hobby and I love it. My friends all know what to expect when they come to dinner "Are you finished taking pictures?" or "Did you get a photo of so & so?" I never let them wait too long and the food is NEVER cold! I now have over 6000 photos on Zaar - some fairly good and some definitely not so good. I am happy to say that practice does help.
My roots are in Vancouver BC Canada - a very beautiful city that holds many wonderful memories for me. In 1990, I decided that for my retirement years I may want to settle in a smaller community and found a slice of heaven in the North Okanagan B.C. I love living here but every once in a while I miss the bright city lights, the Broadway shows and some of the small wonderful ethnic restaurants that Vancouver abounds in. That is easily resolved. I just take a trip to the coast, visit with friends for a weekend see a show and feast on Dim Sum or other specialty foods.
I am getting a bit long in the tooth but was a very adventurous person. I have river rafted Hell's Gate on the Fraser river, been up in a glider over Hawaii (no not a Hang Glider!), gone hot air ballooning in the Napa Valley & the Fraser Valley, driven dune buggies on the dunes in Oregon, Para sailing in Mexico and tried many other adventurous, challenging, fun things. I have yet to try bungee jumping or sky diving. I may do them yet. I love to travel and experience other cultures. Mexco has been a favorite haunt. I have visited that lovely country many many times. Australia is another favorite as is England!
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