Irish Recipe ✶ Bean Rarebit

This is a lovely cheese sauce on toast. It was my mom's recipe. She used to make this when she had to feed a family of 9 with very few resources. However, I remember this as some of the best comfort food. Serve over buttered toast. For an extra special dish, we like to top it with a fried egg.

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter
• ¼ cup chopped onion
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
• 1 (15.5 ounce) can white beans, drained and rinsed

Cooking Directions

1. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir onion until soft, about 5 minutes.
2. Stir flour and salt into onion until flour forms a paste, 1 to 2 minutes.
3. Gradually whisk milk and Dijon mustard into onion mixture and bring to a simmer, whisking constantly until the sauce thickens, 5 to 7 minutes.
4. Stir Cheddar cheese and white beans into sauce until cheese melts into sauce, 5 to 7 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories365.2
• carbohydrateContent24.4 g
• cholesterolContent66.4 mg
• fatContent22 g
• fiberContent3.7 g
• proteinContent18 g
• saturatedFatContent13.9 g
• sodiumContent540.3 mg
• sugarContent4.5 g