Beans and Grain Recipes

Pork shoulder chili with pinto beans, green olives, and olive juice for a briny twist. Slow-simmered with chili powder, paprika, celery seed, and Tabasco.

A light, luscious hazelnut meringue cake with chocolate-coffee filling is a dream dessert after a buffer.

A comforting, easy-to-make casserole using mostly pantry staples like canned vegetables, pasta, and a creamy sauce. Tender marinated chicken is combined with rigatoni, mushrooms, green beans, and onions, then baked with a cheesy topping for a family-friendly meal.

Vegetarian lentil enchiladas made with cumin-spiced lentils, onion, green pepper, and salsa wrapped in flour tortillas. A hearty, protein-packed meatless Mexican dinner.

A scrumptious side dish made with aji chiles, fresh lima beans and a variety of spices.

Slow-simmered Spanish white bean soup with ham hocks, leeks, turnips, carrots, and fresh coriander. A rich, filling pot of soup that feeds 8 from dried beans.

Hearty vegetarian burgers made from pearl barley, chickpeas, and oatmeal seasoned with soy sauce, paprika, and basil. Pan-fried or baked, naturally low in fat and cholesterol-free.

This chili is a very great combination, all kinds of nutritient ingredients mix well together.

Hillbilly chili made the back-porch way: ground beef, pinto beans, crushed tomatoes, and a splash of jalapeño pickling liquid for kick. A no-fuss Appalachian-style chili finished with vinegar.

Texas Bandera chili with ground chuck, tomato sauce, lite beer, and jalapeño pinto beans. Bold chili powder and a long simmer build the kind of deep, beefy stew that gets better the next day.

Nothing is better than a bowl of warm chili in a cold day. It's cozy and warm you up.

Ken's famous crockpot baked beans loaded with ground beef, bacon, maple syrup, brown sugar, liquid smoke, and hot sauce. Six hours on low, feeds a hungry crowd.

Shrimp with lobster sauce, the Chinese-American takeout classic that contains no lobster at all. Shrimp simmered with ground pork and fermented black beans in a savory, egg-laced sauce. Ready in about 30 minutes.

Sausage skillet supper with bulk pork sausage, kidney beans, stewed tomatoes, and long grain rice simmered in picante sauce. A one-pan weeknight dinner with just six ingredients.

Tuna chili Texas-style with kidney beans, tomatoes, bell pepper, chili powder, cumin, and red wine vinegar. A quick microwave chili that swaps ground beef for canned tuna.

Pennsylvania Dutch ham with string beans and potatoes, simmered together in a smoky broth for hours. Old-fashioned one-pot supper served with vinegar on the side.