163 kidney recipes

A make-ahead layered pasta salad loaded with kidney beans, corn, bell peppers, and a creamy taco-seasoned dressing. This Southwestern pasta salad feeds a crowd and tastes even better the next day.

Quick two-bean beef chili with kidney beans, chili beans, tomatoes, and cheddar cheese ready in 40 minutes. A hearty, no-fuss weeknight dinner that feeds a crowd from one Dutch oven.

Vegetarian Mexican pie with a spiced bean and corn filling sandwiched between layers of stovetop cornbread, baked until golden. A hearty, budget-friendly meatless main dish.

Rice salad with corn, kidney beans, and bell peppers tossed in a tangy vinegar-horseradish dressing. No-cook, vegetarian, and ready in 15 minutes flat.

Spicy chili beans made from dried red kidney beans simmered 4 hours with chili powder, cumin, cayenne, tomatoes, and bell pepper. A meatless chili with serious heat and deep bean flavor.

Hearty venison chili using both cubed and ground deer meat for texture, simmered with crushed tomatoes, chili powder, cumin, and kidney beans. Masa harina thickens it to a rich, spoon-coating finish.

Three beans mingle with zucchini, fresh tomatoes, and banana peppers in this Southwestern-spiced vegetable soup. Red wine and cumin add warmth to this hearty, healthy bowl.

Warm up your winter days with this delicious chili that's so easy to make, you can use your crockpot!

A no-bean Texas-style beef chili with cubed chuck, beer, jalapeños, and masa for thickening. Slow-simmered for 2 hours until fork-tender with bold cumin and chili powder heat.

Mexican bean soup with ground beef, three kinds of beans, corn, tomatoes, taco seasoning, and ranch dressing mix. A dump-and-simmer weeknight soup ready in 40 minutes.

Bean soup with dumplings simmers kidney and black beans with corn, green chiles, and chili powder, then steams fluffy cornmeal dumplings right on top. A hearty, Southwestern one-pot meal with cornbread-style dumplings.

Pasta and potato stew with elbow macaroni, red potatoes, kidney beans, and Roma tomatoes in a red wine vegetable broth. A hearty Italian-inspired vegetarian stew thickened by pureeing.

Smoky kidney bean and corn chili piled over crispy puffed flour tortillas with melted Monterey Jack. Vegetarian, low-fat, and on the table in 30 minutes.

Gringo chili: retro American chili built on canned tomato soup, French onion soup, kidney beans, and ground beef. Loaded with ground chile, cumin, and oregano. Weeknight chili with zero apologies.

Chicken chili with kidney beans, diced apples, and tomato juice simmered low and slow for two hours. A lighter chili with a surprising sweet-savory twist from fresh apples.

Smoky Western beans with bacon, pinto beans, kidney beans, and lentils simmered in a spiced tomato sauce with cumin and chili powder. Easy one-pot comfort food for a crowd.