beans & pulses

Ideally, this recipe from Madagascar should be prepared with jugo beans, also known as bambara beans. If you don't have them, try black eyed beans. Serve with rice.

Serve Armenian mashed bean salad in a round flat dish with all mashed beans distributed around the dressing. Eat with a spoon, taking a little mashed bean and some dressing in a spoonful.

Pasta e fagioli is an old Italian stew that the peasants ate because it was easy to make, inexpensive, and hearty. Serve with crusty Italian bread.

This is the Galician white bean soup recipe, known as caldo gallego adapted to the ingredients at hand.

Far east of Verona is a town called Trieste. From this city hails a soup that shows how the cuisine of Italy has been influenced by other cultures. It uses sauerkraut!

Despite the large number of ingredients, preparation of this traditional soup from the north is really simple. All the work is in simply chopping and slicing the vegetables and the ham.

This Sicilian lentil salsa is a sauce that takes just a bit more preparation but, oh my, are the results ever worth it!

Mix a recipe for baked beans with one for chili con carne and you create a special kind of baked beans. This recipe is great for a crowd.