Beans and Grain Recipes

Classic French-style lobster tart with a buttery lard-and-butter pastry, sweet lobster medallions, and a silky egg-and-cream custard. An old-school dinner-party showstopper.

Raisin brown bread with whole wheat flour, molasses, and buttermilk baked into a dense, hearty loaf. No yeast needed for this classic one-bowl quick bread studded with plump raisins.

Hearty lamb shoulder chili with pinto beans, double paprika, cumin, and a secret hit of coffee. Seared, simmered, and fork-tender in 90 minutes. A bold twist on classic chili.

Oven-baked Texarkana chili with ground round steak, hot chile powder, cumin, and kidney beans simmered low and slow in a flour-thickened gravy. Border-town bold.

Hearty vegetarian two-bean and cheddar cheese pie loaded with chickpeas, kidney beans, and melted cheddar in a homemade biscuit crust. A filling, protein-rich meatless dinner baked in just 25 minutes.

Traditional Polish holiday side dishes: golden fried cabbage with split peas, pearl barley, buckwheat, baked rice, breadcrumb-coated potatoes, and seasoned beans. A complete Wigilia spread.

Vanilla bean chocolate chip cookies with real vanilla bean seeds scraped into buttery dough. The vanilla beans create flecked, fragrant cookies with sophisticated flavor and optional walnuts for crunch.

Halloween beef stew with orzo "maggots" kids love. Flour-coated stew beef browned with tomatoes, carrots, green beans, and thyme. Spooky fun, seriously good.

German vegetable soup built on a long-simmered soup bone broth with cabbage, turnip, lima beans, corn, and tomatoes, thickened with a flour-milk slurry. Pennsylvania Dutch comfort food.

All-butter pie crust with egg yolk for a rich, flaky pastry. Includes instructions for single crust, double crust, pre-baked shell, and five decorative edging styles.

Bafla are Rajasthani wheat dough balls boiled in spiced moong dal, then baked until cracked and golden. Break them open, drizzle with ghee, and pour the aromatic dal right over top for a soul-warming vegetarian meal.

Slow cooked classic, beefy just bursting with flavor, easy to make and feeds a crowd. Perfect for company.

A hearty, full-scale borsch loaded with beef, bacon, kielbasa, beets, cabbage, potatoes, and navy beans. This is the real deal: slow-simmered, sweet-sour balanced, and crowned with sour cream. Feeds 10.

No-bake cappuccino cream pie with a toasted macadamia graham cracker crust, white chocolate espresso custard filling, and whipped cream topped with chocolate-covered espresso beans.

Try this succulent quiche that's made with swiss chard, belpaese and parmesan cheese.

Ground beef simmered with chili powder, tomatoes, bell pepper, and garlic, then finished with melted sharp cheddar stirred right in. A thick, cheesy one-skillet chili ready in an hour.