Use for butterbeans?

slowlyfading

Having sorted out the cupboards in the kitchen today, I noticed that we seem to have 7 tins of butterbeans :eek: we normally do a dish with these, tomatoes and green beans, but I was wondering, does anyone have any other, lovely recipes to use these up in? Thanks

Pink.

Hi slowlyfading,

I sometimes serve them in a cheese sauce with leeks. There's an earlier thread that has lots of ideas so I'll add your post to that to keep the replies together.

Pink

slowlyfading

thanks pink-winged

Primrose

Cooked Butter beans are also nice in a mixed salad.
Fry some sliced red pepper, onions, mushrooms until soft and mix in with the beans.

hmkn

I use them instead of potato in soup- they thicken it and make it really creamy when it's pureed. Especially good with onion/leek soups, so not very seasonal.

the other thing I make with them is butterbean pate. Puree them with garlic and lemon juice and seasoning. Add chopped fresh parsley if you have any- yum! Use on crackers, as a dip, in sandwiches...

HMK

jessbrown100

We normally do a sausage and butterbean casserole. Don't have exact measures as it's one of those ad hoc recipes. Basically we fry off onions and green peppers, add chunks of Chorizo (if we've got any), smoked paprika, chilli powder, garlic and then some big sausages- either plain pork, tomato or chilli that have already been fried off. Once everything is softened we chuck a tin of toms or passata in and some chicken stock and simmer slowly for an hour or two. Add the butter beans fifteen minutes or so before the end of cooking. We normally have this with buttered couscous and is even nicer if eaten the day after cooking.
HTH,
Jess

champys

I have a fab recipe for butterbeans which I sadly never make anymore because they don't do butterbeans in France (could I grow them, I wonder?). It is a one-pot meal, really simple, and goes as follows:

Cube about 1 lb or 500g lamb (neck fillet works well, but shoulder is fine too) and season with salt & pepper. Brown in a little olive oil. Add 2 garlic cloves, minced or crushed and 1 lb of cherry tomatoes. Season a little more and cook until the tomatoes start going soft, cover and simmer very slowly for 20 minutes or the tomatoes will have broken down to a sauce and the meat is tender. Add 2 tins of butter beans (400g each, drained) and heat through in the sauce. Serve with chopped fresh coriander. Really delicious - I miss this one a lot!

Squelchy

Butterbean and Mushroom Salad with coriander
Mushrooms (1 punnet)
Butterbeans (about a tin- I normally do this by eye)
tbsp coriander seeds (or less if you prefer)
juice of half a lemon
olive oil
Toast the coriander seeds in the saucepan as it is heating. Remove them and crush them before they burn. Sweat the mushrooms (chopped, or whole if you're in a hurry) in the olive oil. When they are done, mix everything in a serving dish. Nice warm with crusty bread, but also nice cool when it's had time to marinate.

Butter bean and spring onion salad
Very simply, just dress butter beans and finely chopped spring onions with olive oil and lemon juice mixed thoroughly together into a dressing. This should be infinitely variable: try good vinegar instead of the lemon, or plenty of fresh herbs instead of/as well as the spring onions.

Easy mediterranean butterbean stew
If you would prefer something hot but still summery, try mixing butterbeans with about the same quantity of ratatouille, for a summer stew to serve with couscous. You can vary the flavour by adding coriander, herbs, or even replacing some of the butterbeans with tuna for more "bite".

Herbaholic

My Mum used to make oxtail and butterbean stew for my Dad, it was the only thing she made (apart from sprouts bleugh!) that I would NEVER eat, as I recall it was basically oxtail, butterbeans (Mum's were the dried kind soaked over night), carrot, onion and beef stock and salt & pepper. No reason why you couldn't make the same thing but use some stewing beef I guess?

Herby

couteaux

Hi Herby. My OH loves a dish very similar to that, but you have tinned tomatoes, a little curry powder and potatoes. It is really filling, but I'm not mad on oxtail either. It's a bit too jelatinous for me. Good idea to use stewing steak instead!

We used to have boiled bacon with whole carrots, whole onions and butterbeans added just before it finished cooking.

Or - Spanish pork with chorizo and butterbeans. This is lovely with belly pork, slow cooked with onions and garlic. Add the chorizo and butterbeans and a little glug of wine if you have some. Let it cook slowly. It's lovely with some rice or bread.

You could always do carrot and butterbean soup