Lima Bean

Cozy and comforting, these creamy and flavorful braised beans are a one-pot wonder that make a protein-packed vegetarian meal.

Give wilty greens a new lease on life by blanching and blitzing them into the ultrasmooth, ultragreen base of a simple bowl of beans.

These impossibly creamy and saucy one-pot lima beans are richly flavored from smoked turkey tail.

The cold bean salad you’ve been craving this summer. Buttery big beans and a garlicky tomato dressing.

This stew recipe is all about those lovingly cooked and seasoned dried beans and the glorious (vegan!) broth they create.

Stirring a raw egg yolk into each bowl at the end adds silkiness, heft, and protein.

If you don’t happen to have or particularly enjoy pastrami, bacon or pancetta would be a delicious substitute for this minestrone recipe. Check out step-by-step photos here.

Cook the collards until they completely surrender themselves to the rich, spicy, lip-smacking braising liquid. This recipe is from Buxton Hall, one of the Hot 10, America's Best New Restaurants 2016.

Beans can roll with virtually any flavor profile, including bright fresh citrus, lime juice, and chiles in this wintery salad.

When your beans are tender, take them off the heat and focus on the cooking liquid, doctoring it with good olive oil, salt, and pepper, tasting and seasoning it until the liquid itself is straight-up delicious.

Customize it: Use carrot instead of celery root and any other white bean (gigante, cannellini) you like.

The Giant Bean Succotash is the ideal way to use up summer’s bounty.

You've got plenty of options for this salad: butter beans, lima beans, black-eyed peas, or navy beans. Just be sure to use green beans for some color.

We love the flavor and texture of dried butter beans, but you can make this recipe with three 15-ounce cans of butter beans instead.

This lima bean recipe with red wine vinaigrette makes a great side dish, though we'd happily eat it as a main course.

If you can’t find mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella) for this late-summer dish, substitute fresh cow’s-milk mozzarella. Silverton sometimes serves the dish with slow-roasted tomatoes for a tangy-sweet flourish.

Get out your cast iron skillet for this summery succotash recipe.

Lima beans lend some hearty protein to this healthy soup—make a big pot and think spring

This lima bean soup recipe calls for soaking the beans overnight, but the resulting creamy texture is well worth the time.