Any ideas for using haricot beans?

Raspberry_Swirl

any recipe that says to use canellini/butterbeans can have haricot beans instead.

add them to a savoury mince dish such as cottage pie/mince & potatoes to bulk out the meal. or, as suggested above, boston baked beans are great.

kdean

Thanks they look good.

I am making a meat and pot pie for this evening, would they go well in this?

kdean

Oooh just thought of something, when I have been to Greek restaurants I love the garlic bean dish that you get with the meze. Could I make this with them? Does anybody have a recipe for this as if I remember correctly it is yum (so long as DH eats it too, very garlicy).

kdean

Edit - thought that had not gone through

HopeElizzy

Hi Kdean

I usually use dried haricots in this recipe, by evilwoman, but I don't see why you couldn't do it with tinned ones. I work from lunch till early evening so make it in a slow cooker though the original recipe doesn't use one. It's very yummy and the littlies (4yo & 2yo) love it.

Hope that helps.

Raspberry_Swirl

kdean wrote: »

Oooh just thought of something, when I have been to Greek restaurants I love the garlic bean dish that you get with the meze. Could I make this with them? Does anybody have a recipe for this as if I remember correctly it is yum (so long as DH eats it too, very garlicy).

one of this month's food magazines has a similar recipe to that in it. i'll look when i get home. it could definately be made with haricot beans though.

Ianna

Use them in a salad to make it more filling.

chivas

I guess you could do it kind of like hummous??

Or this should be good - don't know if it's the type of thing you meant:
put the beans, one clove of crushed garlic, a tbsp lemon juice, a couple of glugs of extra virgin olive oil and some S&P into a blender and pulse til its mixed but not totally smooth. Could probably add some chopped coriander or parsley too if you fancied that?
If you don't have a blender, just give it a good old mash

chivas

btw - was guessing at quantities, you could make it as garlicky as you like!

Pink.

Hi kdean,

There's an older thread with more ideas for haricot beans so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink