Veggie meal or not? Butterbeans - a yummy idea of what to do?

[yogabird]

Hopeful of becoming a healthier eater I impulse purchased butter beans, soaked them overnight and am now wondering what on earth to do next that the kids, dh and i will love. ANy ideas - has anyone done this before

[hairtwiddler]

I like butterbeans in a sausage casserole but that's not very veggie, is it! Could use veggie sausages though...
Nice with rosemary and lots of veggies in a tomato sauce - serve with baguette.
I love butterbeans.

[cyanarasamba]

to yogabird!

how about a salad - of beans, feta cubes, grilled red pepper, tomato & red onion on bed of mixed leaves. Honey, lemon, a little garlic and olive oil for the dressing.

DH (a salad hater) will eat this crammed into pitta breads.

[janeite]

They're nice in a veggie sausage casserole.

My favourite though is to fry onion and garlic in olive oil until soft but not brown - add some dried mint, black pepper and a bit of paprika and chilli. Fry for a min. Add a tub of passata and cook a bit. Add the butterbeans and cook a bit more, just to warm them through and take on the flavours. Add a big spoonful of Greek yoghurt. Serve with Greek salad, tsatziki, pitta.

If you've not got passata you can use a tin of toms but blend them first as lumps are blah.

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

mash them with some herbs, salt and pepper and serve as a side dish, they are actually quite tasty.

[ThingOne]

I quite often have them cold (straight out of the tin in this house) with some pesto. This makes a nice base for a salad as well.

[muddleduck]

mix them with breadcrumbs to make chocolate biscuits

showing my age...

[yogabird]

sunny and lovely here today but am fancying sausages, despite the possibility that summer has returned. Will file your feta recipe and go off to farm shop for bangers

[yogabird]

choc biscuits????? Are you muddled, duck? (as they say in Nottingham)