Cannellini beans and rib trimmings

[Joe. P]

Hello all
I was wondering how one would incorporate Cannellini Beans and spare rib trimmings in one pot?. Them being white beans I didn’t want to do the traditional baked bean recipe. Id like to keep it mostly white but not sure what liquid to use, just plain water? Stock? Ideally all ingredients would simmer together in the pot.

For some reason I have a mental block on this. Maybe because I usually do Cannellini Beans with onion garlic sage and some kind of canned tomatoes. The tomatoes are the liquid. Maybe just add the trimmings to that recipe I guess. Hmmmm….
Thanks
-Joe

 

[j biesinger]

With cannellini beans, I like chopped carrot/celery/onion with a bay leaf, stock or water as a base, salt and pepper to taste. I serve it with braised lamb shank with garlic, lemon zest, parsley, pepper gremolata.

I think some smoked (unseasoned) pork would work well with this combo

 

[K Kruger]

Seasoned works too if you bump up the flavors a bit. For that I like to include garlic, often thyme, and I replace the celery with--or simply add--greens (usually kale, sometimes chard) that I wilt into the beans.