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Baked lima beans with onions and bacon
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Nov 4, 2024
Can I open your mind to lima beans? My mind was opened to them with the cream of lima bean soup. These are not the mealy green limas from your childhood. You may just love them too after making this recipe! Find my written version of this recipe: https://tinycottagekitchen.com/baked-lima-beans-with-bacon/
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hey Siri is there more polarizing
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vegetable than lima
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beans hi everyone welcome back to the
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channel in this video I'm going to try
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to
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possibly start a campaign to reignite
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people's excitement for the much
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maligned vegetable the lima bean now
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when I think think of polarizing Foods
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or ingredients I think of things like
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coconut
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cilantro fruit cake which we'll talk
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about that later this holiday season and
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of course the much maligned lima bean
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now I was team I don't like lima beans
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until about a year ago maybe a little
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longer when I attempted cream of lima
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bean soup from the book that I feature
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on this
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channel now that soup you can audibly
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hear me
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speaking during the cooking process I
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tasted the large white liab bean which
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is very different from the me small
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green lima bean of my youth and it was
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sweet and tender and creamy and I loved
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it so when I saw this recipe for baked
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lima beans in this retro cookbook I was
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pretty excited to try it and it did not
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disa point so let's go into the kitchen
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but before we do tell me what do you
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think is the most polarizing ingredient
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down in the
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comments so I've soaked my pound of
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beans overnight look how big they are
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they're bigger than a quarter barely but
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these are the big beans and they were
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kind of hard to find I had I got two
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packages I feel the Public's had them in
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stock so I want to make that cream of
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lima bean soup so I'm going to drain and
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rinse these get any of that you know the
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what comes out of the beans when they
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soak and then put it into a pot of water
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with eight cups of water and a teaspoon
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of salt
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right from
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here I'm going to bring them to a boil
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over high heat and then turn down the
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heat and let them simmer for 45 to 60
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minutes until they're tender
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while the beans finished cooking I'm
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going to start assembling every other
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part of
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this so let's
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see this has lots of sliced onion in it
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so it's these two medium onions and this
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one here that's still got kind of the
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tip on it that's intentional so let cut
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it in
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half and then this will get studded with
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the three
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cloves that I pulled out actually I have
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four in there I'll probably use those I
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love the taste of cloves this is going
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to have a very similar taste to just
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what you think of as traditional baked
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beans and they are slicing the onions so
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that it's just halves like this
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let see if I can get these to go
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in and this I assume is so that you get
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the flavor of the clove without the
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cloves floating around in the sauce
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because they will be well disguised and
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they while they are delicious and add
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some nice depth of flavor they're not
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pleasant to eat they have kind of an
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aurbic taste if you eat the clove
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straight okay those and then for the
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sauce there's a half a cup of
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ketchup and I make my own so I'll do my
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half cup in here I'm just going to have
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all this combined and ready and it's
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going to get mixed with one cup of the
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cooking
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liquid from the
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beans 1/4 cup of brown
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sugar the dry mustard and
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ginger show that that's bit and then
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I'll get a bacon out I'll finish
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chopping these and then get the bacon
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out and the beans are nearly done
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and so my beans are tender they took a
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lot longer than 45 to 60 Minutes I
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turned the heat a little bit higher I
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think maybe I had it too low I had it
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added two and I turned after 45 minutes
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and they were still really um not done I
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turned it up to three and did another 45
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minutes so it says to drain them
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reserving the liquid because the liquid
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is part of the
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sauce won need all of
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this but about expect to use about two
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cups of it
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so the onions go into the mixture
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here my whole kitchen smells like raw
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onion while I've waited for these beans
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to get done these in here this has a lot
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of onions for the proportion of of beans
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which I don't mind but if you're not an
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onion fan Maybe
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like this but I think that will be
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delicious bacon and onion and beans are
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match made in
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heaven we'll talk about the bacon in a
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little
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bit so I will dip out one cup let me get
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that onion that
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escaped and put that in
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here just get it combine nicely
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so this is the cooking liquid and then
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the additional seasoning of the bacon it
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does not say to add more salt to
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this just the salt that was used to cook
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the
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beans all right so now comes the bacon I
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have it says eight slices I've got thick
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slices so I've I'm just using five
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because that proportion of seasoning ing
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that comes from it is key to this dish
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and eight of these would probably
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overpower
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it so half goes into the bottom of the
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pan and the
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beans I'm going going to layer a little
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bit the beans in the sauce so that I
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don't disturb the bacon when I mix
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everything
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onions and the rest of the beans
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and while it's cooking you've got to
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keep your eye on
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it B is to stick the onion in the
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center up into the bean
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liquid and then the bacon gets laid
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around
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it this will shrink up so I'm not going
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to trim it but I don't want it rendering
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into my oven so I'll push it down a
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little
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bit I think it needs a little more
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liquid
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already because it Cooks uncovered
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so that was about 3/4 of a cup
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more all right so this goes in a 350°
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preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes or
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until the beans are
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tender and well coated with this sauce
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and it needs to be checked during the
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cooking to make sure that it's not
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getting too dry that's why I've got all
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this reserve
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liquid I've taken it out of the oven and
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I did bake it quite a bit longer than
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the maximum hour recommended just
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because it was really still kind of
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Juicy from the extra moisture I put in
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there and I wanted that to cook out but
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better too much than too little because
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a dry bean is not a good Bean so I'm
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going to let this cool off and then give
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it a taste
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all right I've had these resting for
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quite a while now about an hour just to
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let everything set
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warm not too hot look how big these
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beans are and they're so sweet and
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tender I'm excited to have a
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taste they're still pretty moist but not
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Gloppy they absorbed most of that
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seasoning definitely has the baked bean
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flavor but a little bit sweeter because
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these beans have a sweetness to
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them M delicious and they don't need
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salt that Bon is just
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enough I love all the onion in it and
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the the brown sugar you can taste
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because the ingredients are so simple
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and that Ginger is really
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nice delicious
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