Ingredients
300 g pinto beans (precooked or soaked and boiled for about 1 hour until tender)
1 celery stalk
1 clove of garlic
½ red onion
1 peperoncino
3 laurel leaves
1 tbsp fennel seeds
Olive oil, salt, pepper
Fresh spring onion or garlic tops
Preparation
Boil the beans with chopped celery, onion, garlic, peperoncino and laurel leaves.
Drain well when the beans are done and blend to a smooth paste adding fennel seeds, salt and pepper.
Serve the easy bean dip with a sprinkling of garlic or spring onion tops.
Looks like a perfect addition to all the meze dishes we’ve been making up for our fridge. Love grazing on these little dips when the weather starts to warm up.
Julia
Oh man, that sounds yummy! I recently found another recipe that’s very similar to this one except it calls for cannellini beans. Now I have TWO bean dip/spread recipes to try! Thx!
Looks delicious. I will have to try it as a dip. You’re my inspiration for Italian cooking! I use so many of your recipes.
Thanks. That’s really what I’m trying to achieve, so I’m so glad you like it: