Spagheani

Been a long time but I just hadn't developed any new really inexpensive recipes the past year or so. I just made this one by puttering around in the kitchen this evening. Had a couple of small steaks to use up, my wife wanted kidney beans and I didn't have time to bake potatoes to go with them. I'm pretty sure this isn't an original recipe but I haven't seen it elsewhere before, so:
(all prices are estimates based on my most recent shopping trip)

Spagheani:
Ingredients:
1 can beans (kidney, black, pinto, or even pork and beans){about $0.70-$0.80 on sale}
1 heaping teaspoon garlic {$0.05, if that}
1/8 of a medium onion, diced {$0.12 if you pick up your onions on sale}
Black pepper (to taste) {$0.01}
1 handful thin spaghetti (enough to make 3-4 servings) {$0.17-$0.20}
1 half stick margarine (4 teaspoons) {$0.13}
1/4 pound beef (ground beef, low end steak, etc...) {$0.65 for ground beef}

Put beans (including juice) in pot, simmer on med-low heat on stove. Add heaping teaspoon garlic and diced onion, stir. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.

While bean mix simmers, cook your beef. Set aside to cool slightly.

Start the water heating to boil your pasta.

Add butter and pepper to bean mixture. Slice the beef into small chunks (or crumble to small chunks for ground beef) and add into bean mixture, stir. Recover and simmer for 15 minutes.


While the bean and beef mixture simmers, add pasta to water (should be a medium boil or higher).

Drain water from pasta, place on plates, spoon beef-bean mixture over the pasta, garnish with Parmesan cheese if desired and serve.

Serves 3-4
Cost: $1.83 - $2.00 (or $0.46 - $0.67 per serving)

Very tasty dish, very filling and quite good for you.

Enjoy...
Thralen