Butter Beans

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I went on a mad lentil/bean buying frenzy about a yr ago and i am doing a store cupboard challenge and i dont know what to do with them.

Apart from sticking them in a casserole any other ideas please or mash - i thought of that.

thanks

my dad used to put them in soup

have a nice recipe where you bake them in a tomato sauce - want it?

say if you don't - save me typing it out.

Nice in pasta bake. Carrot and butter bean soup.

This was in the observer recently, and it was lovely. No reason why you couldn't use butter beans instead of haricot. Also there's a nice Jamie Oliver recipe with chicken in a butter bean cassolet I tried recently.
Have other ideas if you want vege recipes.

Good in salads.
Lardons;herbs;toatoes

yes pls bishy.

i will take anything scree. I have lots of the buggers and chickpeas, haricot, black and lots of others. I think i got the whole aisle.

i use them in veggie chilli. just had some infact.

italian chicken stew

chicken
tin of toms
sliced fennel bulb
garlic
beans
onion
dried chilli (?)

serve with crusty bread toast

if interested will hunt out recipe for you

here is a deffo brill menu although we used kidney beans and chic peas

They look like they have fossil shapes on them. Thought they shoudl be smooth and bean like.

I like the sound of 'chic peas' RTKM

very stylish.

check the best befores, but they should be nice and smooth again after soaking. Will hunt out recipes.

Chickpeas! Brilliant. this is just the best for chickpeas! Get a good chorizo though.

Soak and cook. Drain. Fry a chopped onion and some garlic in olive oil. Add dried mint and/or fresh, some paprika, a spot of chilli powder and lots of black pepper. Chuck in a tub of passata and a big glug of fullfat Greek yoghurt. Add the beans. Cook for a while for the flavours to blend. Lovely with feta cheese, more fresh mint on top, pitta bread, olives and tsatziki (sp?).

I had the sauce with pasta and soured cream and cheese tonight it was deffo brill

Still with the CHIC peas

thankyou. I have poked them this morning as qhilst they still look at little like fossils they look alot better.

I should have had faith in the humble bean.

Lamb and Beans

Fry onions with some garlic
Add cubed lamb (completely without fat if you're as fussy as dh )
Add tinned toms and some tomato puree
Add loads of Rosemary
Add pre-cooked beans (butter/haricot/cannellini)
Simmer for not very long

Eat with new pots/mash/crusty bread

how long do you have to soak them for?

Butter beans and bread crumbs make chocolate bisuits. Or so the mice in Bagpuss would have you believe.