whats your fave recipe using dried peas/beans/lentils?

tescobabe69

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/lamb/braised-lamb-with-flageolet-beans.html

Use different beans though, otherwise a waste of time.

lostinrates

the white beans, butter or cannolini, are yummy on toast for a quick supper: toast some nice bread and spead with pesto or a salsa verde then put the hot beans on the top....excessively simple quick meal.

rising_from_the_ashes

WOW! Thanks all ...... some great ideas (never even occurred to me you could eat them on toast!) - guess what I'll be reading tonight!

Fruball

They scream CHILLI to me!!!

I never only use kidney beans - I love chickpeas in chilli and will put in cans of any beans I have in the cupboards.

Once those are used up, try pinto beans and borlotti beans.... Yummy!!!

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi Fru:wave: hope you had a lovely Christmas with your girls & best wishes for 2012 ....

Now then.... you mean there's others I've still to experience - I can't believe there's so many different types of beans available ... I think the only ones I've every had are kidney:o

Just googled those ones Pinto - does that mean I can make refried beans (I love that!:D)

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

With Beans you must remember the cardinal rule of flavour flavour flavour. If you can get a stonking sauce around them you are onto a winner.
Butter beans always like cream and cheese based sauces it brings out their flavour. Chickpeas make fantastic curry, falafel, houmous and are a worthy inclusion in cupboard. Black eye beans like a tasty veg stew.
You have no lentils!!!
( I live on Waitrose Puy, and red lentils, I am a massive lentils fan!!)
Rose Elliot bean book adapt as very wholefoody you need gourmet real butter, all butter pastry etc to bring out beans.
HFW and Gaurdian food columnists reliable recipes. A very foody ingredients that is very good for you.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

My personal advice is buy ready made meals which use beans excellently, Tesco veggie lentil mousaka is a winner. Try ready made Falafel Cauldron is good to see what a good recipe tastes like. Be true to yourself.

rising_from_the_ashes

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

You have no lentils!!!
( I live on Waitrose Puy, and red lentils, I am a massive lentils fan!!)

I have lentils;) - big jar (1/2 full & in use) & a huge 3kg new pack:) - it's just beans that I've never really tried to do anything with before!:o

Will check out the colomists, thanks:)

BitterAndTwisted

I love Rose Elliot's recipes. Red lentils make a really delicious pate. I'm not slavish about what beans to use in which recipes I swap them for whatever I have to hand if I don't have the "right" ones. Nothing bad has happened.

Sambucus_Nigra

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Hi Fru:wave: hope you had a lovely Christmas with your girls & best wishes for 2012 ....

Now then.... you mean there's others I've still to experience - I can't believe there's so many different types of beans available ... I think the only ones I've every had are kidney:o

Just googled those ones Pinto - does that mean I can make refried beans (I love that!:D)

My personal collection includes over 120 different varieties at the last count; I grow hundreds of bean plants each year and leave them all to dry on the plant for winter stews. I could double that and still be nowhere near the number that you can grow if you have the time, space and inclination.