Mamamia Kitchen. Yes, I cook. Watch me.

It’s around this time of year when lots of cooking (and eating) is done and so, to give you a bit of inspiration, we are bringing back the hugely popular Mamamia Kitchen where I show you how to make Borlotti Bean Bruschetta.

You can find Mamamia kitchen #2 where I make peanut butter slice here.

The day has come when I subject people outside my family to my cooking. The good news is that you don’t have to actually eat it so you are spared any downside. The upside, of course, is that I will make you feel REALLY capable and confident in the kitchen by comparison.

For this premiere episode, I asked Sandra Reynolds from 120dollarfoodchallenge.com for a suggestion and she responded with a splendid recipe for Bruschetta. Which was harder and easier and much more delicious than I expected. All at once.

Below the video is a gallery with step-by-step instructions and pictures (which is why you will notice MM site manager Lana and her camera popping in and out of the video). But I think it’s the video you’re going to want to see, if only for the good luck message from Masterchef winner Julie Goodwin at the start – I cornered her last week when I was on the Today Show and she was in the next segment making lamb curry.

Roll tape.

We are making Borlotti bean and mozzarella bruschetta

Slice the bread on a diagonal to ensure nice, big slices

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and drizzle the bread with olive oil

Cook the bread for about five minutes per side

Rinse the borlotti beans

These are rinsed borlotti beans - even though they look like soap suds

Pour the beans into the food processor

Snip the chives

Add the chives to the beans in the food processor

Then chop some parsley and add that as well

Pour in about two tablespoons of lemon juice and half a cup of olive oil

Pulse for about 15 seconds so that the beans are smashed but retain their shape

Slice some garlic (you will use it soon)

Slice some cherry tomatoes

Tear your mozzarella (it is fun)

Rub the cooked toast with garlic

Spread the bean mixture quite thickly onto the toast

Place the tomatoes on the paste

Now add the mozzarella

Looking absolutely delicious

Put the toast back in the oven until the cheese starts to bubble

Chop up some rocket

When the cheese is melted decorate with rocket

How fresh does this look? And we are nearly there

I used bresaola, you can use prosciutto or turkey ham

Tear up the meat and add it to the top

I made some vego and some , er not vego

Looks amazing and healthy and delicious

Tastes amazing and healthy and delicious

You can download a printable .pdf of the recipe here.

This is going to be a new regular feature on Mamamia – every couple of weeks I’m going to cook something suggested by you. Simply leave a recipe that isn’t too tricky, can be made in around 15 minutes and doesn’t contain offal in the comments below this post.

Vote for the recipe you’d most like me to cook next time and I will make my next video of the recipe with the most votes (thumbs up). Won’t that be fun?

What would you like to see me cook next??

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