beans & pulses
Recipes and ideas with beans and pulses.
Lentil soup
Lentils make a delicious hearty soup or a vegetarian main, if served with rice, and the recipe could not be easier.
Bean cuisine
Beans and pulses
Chickpea and mushroom cream
Cumin and coriander immediately bring the flavor of the Middle East to your kitchen and chickpeas are typical of their cuisine.
Bean & rice burgers
A vegetarian way to enjoy a burger and recommended for those meatless days that would help to improve our diet.
Three bean salad with rocket dressing
This three bean salad has, as one can work out from the name, three kinds of beans. It also has grilled tomatoes and a rocket and red wine dressing.
Mexican summer salad
Serve with baked tortilla chips and salsa on the side. After all, this is Mexican inspired food.
Mulligatawny soup
A spicy Anglo-Indian soup perfect as a starter or light meal. Traditionally served with separate bowls of white rice.
As the early settlers did, you could get more than one dinner from a batch of baked beans. Freeze any surplus beans in small containers for other times when you are squeezed for time. You could easily double the quantities and freeze half of it the same way.