Beans – Crunchy Cooking

Cauliflower Flatbread with Fava Bean Spread

A really crunchy couple of recipes to add to your roster.

Black bean soup will never win prizes in food photography but it’s silky in the mouth and satisfying in the belly.

An addictive snack, a stellar soup or salad topper, this mixture is a kitchen must-have.

Spicy, sweet, green: what more could you want?

Spicy lentil stew, sweet potato and greens: perfection.

Hummus after a tango with some wasabi green peas

Salad: keeping plates colorful

Once the bunch of kale is gone, there remain the stems. Savor them in soup!

Zuppa de Ceci e Mais just sounds way fancier than Chickpea and Corn soup!

Green split pea soup with fresh herbs and a hint of lemon. It whispers that spring might be on it’s way – if of course it weren’t snowing outside…

Rich, smoky, sweet, complex; this stew has it all.

Lentil soups are a low-maintenance method of getting more of these petite little legumes into a daily diet.