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Boston Baked Beans
Easy
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Rich, smoky, and complexly sweet, these from-scratch baked beans are worth the long—mostly hands-off—cook time.
Frijoles de la Olla
Easy
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Forget soaking your beans! Make like Rick Martinez and use this smart-cooking method instead. 
Big Beans and Tomato Vinaigrette
Vegan
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The cold bean salad you’ve been craving this summer. Buttery big beans and a garlicky tomato dressing.
Homemade Refried Beans
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This refried beans recipe comes from cookbook author Rick Martinez’s dad, who uses salt pork and bacon drippings for deeply savory beans.
Basically Black Bean Soup
Easy
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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.
Lemony White Bean Soup
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Plump white beans create a luscious broth combined with lemon zest, onion, garlic, and celery. A stealthy knob of butter adds just enough richness.
Bean Confit With Lemon, Saffron, and All the Alliums
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Beans cozy up with spring alliums and plenty of olive oil.
86 Bean Recipes to Always Keep in Your Back Pocket
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What's for dinner tonight? These 86 great recipes for beans.
Bubbling Butter Beans
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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.
Creamy Braised Beans With Charred Pickles and Croutons
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Cozy and comforting, these creamy and flavorful braised beans are a one-pot wonder that make a protein-packed vegetarian meal.
16 Helpful Tips for Home Cooks of Any Level
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A few PSAs on freezing, reheating, refrigerating, and cooking—including, of course, dried beans.
Blistered Green Beans With Garlic
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Green beans are shriveled and browned into delicious submission before receiving a flavor bomb of garlic, red pepper flakes, and chopped capers.
White Bean and Chorizo Chili
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Crumble some chorizo, set your bean timer, queue up a movie, and win Sunday: Netflix and chili.
Charro Beans
Easy
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An intensely flavorful broth that’s just as delicious as the beans themselves.
BA’s Best Green Bean Casserole
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Go high-low this year with fresh green beans and mushrooms, Parmesan béchamel, and plenty of store-bought fried onions.
31 Green Bean Recipes That’ll Make Other Veggies Envious
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From charred and snappy to silky and saucy, green beans can do anything.
13 Recipes That Prove That Where There's a Bean, There's Dinner
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How many beans is too many beans? (Asking for a friend.) 
Lemony Brothy Beans With Asparagus
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A lesson in less is more, this comforting pot of creamy beans gets a punchy, raw asparagus salad to balance the deep allium-fortified broth.
Creamy Fondue Beans
Easy
Cooking
All the cozy vibes of the classic gooey-cheesy dish, made into a 20-minute meal.
Tempura Green Beans with Mushroom Salt and Shallot Dip
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When you get right down to it, very few people actually really and truly want a green bean casserole. Lacy fried green beans with an addictive shallot dip? That’s another story, and a great way to use up any leftover beans.
Baked Beans With Slab Bacon and Breadcrumbs
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This recipe doesn't make sticky-sweet brown sugar baked beans. Think of them like the top crust of a good cassoulet.
Cucumber and Avocado Salad Bean Dip
Quick
Consider this dish—made with refried beans and crunchy vegetables—an affirmative answer to the question, “Can dip be dinner?”
Pot o’ Beans
Easy
Recipes
Our no-soak bean recipe is foolproof and ripe for improvisation. Throw in whatever moves you and simmer away.