#beans
4 viral recipes tagged #beans.
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Cassoulet — French White Bean & Meat Casserole
The great slow-cooked casserole of southwest France: creamy white beans baked for hours with sausage, pork and confit duck until rich and unctuous, under a golden, repeatedly-pressed-down breadcrumb crust. Named after the cassole dish it's cooked in, cassoulet is rustic, deeply savoury winter food — a labour of love that rewards patience.
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Minestrone — Italian Vegetable & Bean Soup
Italy's great soup of the cucina povera: a hearty, ever-changing pot of seasonal vegetables, beans and a little pasta or rice, built on a slow-cooked soffritto and simmered until everything is tender and the broth is rich and savoury. Minestrone has no fixed recipe — it's a celebration of whatever the garden and pantry offer — but the soffritto base, a Parmesan rind in the pot, and a finish of good olive oil and grated cheese turn humble vegetables into something deeply comforting.
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Rajma Masala — North Indian Red Kidney Bean Curry
The ultimate North Indian comfort food: red kidney beans simmered until creamy in a rich, spiced onion-tomato gravy with ginger, garlic and warm garam masala. Rajma masala — almost always eaten with steamed rice as 'rajma chawal' — is the beloved Sunday lunch of Punjabi households, hearty, homey and deeply satisfying. The secret is cooking the beans until truly soft and letting the gravy simmer down thick so it clings to every bean.
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Lobio — Georgian Spiced Bean Stew
The soul-warming bean dish of Georgia: red kidney beans simmered until soft and creamy, then seasoned with the bright, unmistakable flavours of the Georgian pantry — blue fenugreek, coriander, garlic, fresh herbs, red wine vinegar and a little chilli. Lobio can be brothy and stewy or mashed to a coarse purée, and is traditionally served in a clay pot (ketsi) with crackly cornbread (mchadi), pickles and raw onion. It's hearty, tangy, deeply aromatic and entirely vegan — humble peasant food elevated by Georgia's singular spicing.