Truffled Beans

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 slices bacon, diced
• 2 shallots, minced
• 1 (19 ounce) can beans, drained and rinsed (such as navy beans or cannellini beans)
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
• 2 lemons, juice of
• salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon truffle oil
• 4 cups baby spinach

Recipe

• 1 note: if you're buying metric, you want the 540 ml can of beans; you're aiming for about 2 cups of beans.
• 2 in a medium saucepan over medium heat, cook diced bacon until crisp (it will take about 10 minutes or so).
• 3 with a slotted spoon, remove bacon to drain on paper towels, but leave bacon fat in pan; raise heat to medium high.
• 4 add shallots and saute for one minute.
• 5 now add beans, thyme and lemon juice; stir.
• 6 cook until beans are warmed through, anywhere from two to four minutes.
• 7 return bacon to pan and season with salt and pepper.
• 8 stir in olive oil and truffle oil and remove from heat.
• 9 arrange spinach evenly over four plates and spoon warm bean mixture on top.