beans & pulses

Recipes and ideas with beans and pulses.

Veggie chili

Vegetarian and low fat, the recipe to share with friends when all are dieting.

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Tuscan dinner

Sautéed beans with all the Tuscan flavor to make your low GI diet more palatable.

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Chickpeas are also known as garbanzo beans. As with all beans and pulses, they are high in protein. These protein balance their carbohydrate content. This recipe can be used as a vegetarian main course.

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Healthy beans

Long before we started talking about super foods, ancient peoples knew the benefits this humble food had to offer; as a vegetable, a protein, and a healer.

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Widow beans

Literal translation of the Spanish name. It is a bean soup with no meat or sausage at all. Flavoring the beans is a challenge.

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Lentil soup

Lentils make a delicious hearty soup or a vegetarian main, if served with rice, and the recipe could not be easier.

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Bean cuisine

Nothing tastes more of the country and no recipe worms and satisfies like a bean dish. Cheap, healthy and comforting, beans are also incredible healthful and, if cooked properly, superb.

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Beans and pulses

Cooking beans is good for the budget cook, because are not expensive, and it is good for the gourmet, because there are many varieties. In spring, young and tender, beans are the perfect vegetable. In winter, when fresh produce is harder to come by, dry beans reign in the kitchen.