Bean

We're very on board with or food director's current obsessions.

The diner classic gets a boost from a pot of zesty, creamy beans and sweet charred limes.

When in doubt, frittata.

Step away from the olive bar. Marinating your own beans, artichoke hearts, and veggies at home couldn't be easier, or more impressive.

This black bean soup is seasoned with a heavy hand. If you are salt- or spice-averse, decrease the amount of salt to 1½ tsp. and use 1 chipotle chile with 1 tsp. adobo sauce instead.

The dal is vegan but full of hearty protein thanks to the chickpeas, lentils, and coconut milk.

Use it to lure friends and family over for a fall stew party.

Carla Lalli Music ate a bowl of magic brothy butter beans. Now she has the secret recipe, and she's ready to evangelize.

Few ingredients have such a stellar deliciousness-to-affordability ratio, and the best part about starting a soup with dried beans is that they create their own incredibly savory broth as they cook.

Editor in chief Adam Rapoport shares his bean strategy for making a pot on Sundays and repurposing them in multiple recipes.

You’ve got fish. You’ve got beans. You’ve got olives. You’ve got: dinner!

This is one of those throw-together dinner recipes that relies on staples like canned beans and lemons; all you have to do is pick up the fish.

The ham hock in this stew lends a rich, smoky essence that flavors the beans from the inside out.

For all us grumps who are already a little (just a little!) ready for fall.

Wedding season is here, and it turns out that love is pretty expensive. Beans, on the other hand, are not.

Plus there's a very impressive harissa-yogurt swoosh.

Garlicky toast smoothed with harissa yogurt and topped with chickpeas = the perfect vegetarian tartine.

An intensely flavorful broth that’s just as delicious as the beans themselves.

A riff on a three-bean salad with a garlic-chile-maple-lime dressing that we can’t quit.

This vegetarian dinner features a spicy soy-honey glaze that caramelizes on the chickpea-mushroom balls as they cook.

This recipe takes all the right shortcuts and none of the wrong ones.

These simple crispy chickpeas are here to improve whatever you're making for dinner.

Exactly what you want when dinner NEEDS to be salad, and salad NEEDS to be dinner.

This simple marinade will fancy up any type of canned beans.