Here you will find a whole range of recipes incorporating beans from the ancient world to modern times. Just about every civilization and culture has recipes using beans as they can be dried and stored over winter. Beans are also a survival food and an excellent source of protein in conjunction with staples such as maize, wheat, barley, millet etc. For this reason many of the bean recipes given originate in Africa and South America, though I have bean and bean-associated recipes listed here from all corners of the globe.

I am using a fairly broad definition of 'bean' here. Effectively I am including all pulses, raw bean pods, lentils and peas. Basically members of the Fabaceae family of flowering plants that produce pods or seeds that are edible by humans. This included beans such as broad (fava) beans, haricot (navy) beans, cannellini beans, barlotti beans, adzuki beans, haricot beans etc; string beans, mangetout, fine beans (where the unripe pods are edible); peas; and lentils. There are also beans grown primarily for oil extraction (soy beans) and beans that are fermented to to make condiments (such as African locust beans).

In almost all instances, human farming started with grains, but all grains are deficient in the essential amino acid, Lysine (maize is in addition, deficient in tryptophan). This is one of the reasons that despite higher availability of food, the health of the first farmers declined in comparison with their hunter-gatherer antecedents. Legumes are generally deficient in Methionine, but have plenty of lysine. So, if you combine grains and legumes in the diet you have a complete source of amino acids. Interestingly, common nuts are deficient in both Methionine and Lysine, so you would need a diet of nuts, legumes and grains to get complete amino acid intake. This is why, once legumes were introduced to the first farmers' diets, health improved significantly. This is why, all over the world, there is a bean and grain staple that has often led to the rise of major civilizatons (rice and dhal on India; maize and beans in Mesoamerica; wheat or oats/barley and Celtic beans in Europe; sorghum, millet or teff and beans in Africa; rice and beans in Asia).

The recipes given here are sourced from around the world, and give a broad view of bean-based dishes globally. There are also more modern recipes using bean-based flours as a base for gluten-free dishes. Beans also have a very log glycaemic index compared with may other foods so beans and bean flours are excellent for anyone on a low GI diet.

The alphabetical list of all the bean-based recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 1082 recipes in total:

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Beans With Rum      Origin: Montserrat	Boiled Windsor Beans      Origin: British	Cachupa Rica      Origin: Cape Verde
Beans with Tomatoes, Onions and Green Bell Pepper      Origin: Zambia	Bolivian Salteñas      Origin: Bolivia	Cachupa Rica II      Origin: Cape Verde
Bébélé (Tripe and Plantain Stew)      Origin: Guadeloupe	Bombay Mix      Origin: India	Cactus Chili      Origin: America
Bedmi Puri      Origin: India	Bonfire Bangers and Beans      Origin: British	Cajun Bean and Potato Stew      Origin: America
Beef and Bean Chimichangas      Origin: America	Bonfire Soup      Origin: British	Cajun Beans over Cornbread      Origin: Cajun
Beef and Dhal Curry      Origin: India	Boondi Laddu      Origin: India	Cajun Brew Pork'n'Beans      Origin: American
Beef Burritos      Origin: America	Bori (Bengali Baked Dumplings)      Origin: India	Cajun Chili Pork      Origin: Cajun
Beef Enchiladas      Origin: Britain	Borulce (Black-eyed Pea Stew)      Origin: Turkey	Cajun Tofu Gumbo      Origin: Cajun
Beignets de Niebé (Cowpea Fritters)      Origin: Mali	Bosanski Lonac (Bosnian Pot Stew)      Origin: Bosnia	Cala (Black-eyed Pea Puffs)      Origin: Aruba
Belizean Chicken Breakfast      Origin: Belize	Bosh (Beans and Bread)      Origin: Sudan	Calabrese Mushroom Chili      Origin: American
Belizean Rice and Beans      Origin: Belize	Boston Baked Beans with Marmite      Origin: Britain	Caldeiraa de Cabrito (Goat Meat Stew)      Origin: Mozambique
Benes y Fryed (Medieval Fried Beans)      Origin: England	Bouneschlupp (Green Beans Soup)      Origin: Luxembourg	Calentita      Origin: Gibraltar
Beninese Jollof Rice      Origin: Benin	Bragoli (Maltese Beef Rolls)      Origin: Malta	Californian Stir Fry      Origin: American
Bermuda Peas n' Rice      Origin: Bermuda	Braised Fillet of Mutton with French Beans      Origin: British	Canadian Minced Beef Curry      Origin: Canada
Besan Ladoo      Origin: India	Braised Lamb Shanks with Cannellini Beans      Origin: Britain	Canarian Ropa Vieja      Origin: Spain
Bhuna Kedgeree      Origin: Anglo-Indian	Brazilian-style Venison with Rice      Origin: Fusion	Cannellini alla Catania      Origin: Italy
Bhuna Khichuri      Origin: Bangladesh	Breakfast Miso Soup      Origin: Japan	Cantonese Garden Vegetable Stir-fry      Origin: China
Big Bowl Chili      Origin: American	Breakfast Pizza      Origin: British	Cape Malay Black-eyed Beans Curry      Origin: South Africa
Bigilla (Broad Bean Dip)      Origin: Malta	Breakfast Pizza 2      Origin: British	Cape Malay Mutton and Dhal Curry      Origin: South Africa
Binch Akara (Bean Fritters)      Origin: Zambia	Breast of Lamb and Green Peas      Origin: British	Cape Verde Jagacida      Origin: Cape Verde
Binch Akara (Sierra Leonean Bean Fritters)      Origin: Sierra Leone	Breast of Veal à la Printaniere      Origin: British	Caraotas Negras (Venezuelan Black Beans)      Origin: Venezuela
Bissara      Origin: Morocco	Brine-pickled Himalayan Balsam Pods      Origin: American	Carapaus Fritos (Portuguese Fried Mackerel)      Origin: Portugal
Bissara Chorba (Moroccan Broad Bean Soup)      Origin: Morocco	Brine-pickled Radish Pods      Origin: American	Cardo con Verdolaga (Pork with Purslane)      Origin: Mexico
Black Bean Burritos      Origin: America	British Virgin Islands Peas Soup      Origin: British Virgin Islands	Cari de Haricots Blancs (Haricot Bean Curry)      Origin: Reunion
Black Bean Curry      Origin: Fusion	Broad Bean and Bacon Soup      Origin: Britain	Cari Dholl (Yellow Split Pea Curry)      Origin: Mauritius
Black Bean Huevos Rancheros      Origin: Mexico	Bruine Bonen (Suriname-style Kidney Bean Stew)      Origin: Suriname	Caribbean Rice and Beans      Origin: British Virgin Islands
Black Bean Sauce      Origin: China	Bruine Bonen met Rijst (Brown Beans with Rice)      Origin: Suriname	Caribbean Rice and Beans      Origin: US Virgin Islands
Black Beans      Origin: Mexico	Bufuke with Onion Sauce      Origin: Uganda	Caribbean-style Chicken Curry      Origin: Fusion
Black Eyed Beans Jambalaya Recipe      Origin: American	Burundi Beans and Plantains      Origin: Burundi	Carlin Pea and Glazed Halloumi Saag      Origin: Britain
Black Eyed Pea Flour Bread      Origin: Liberia	Burundian Bean Soup      Origin: Burundi	Carlin Pea Curry with Perpetual Spinach and Peanut Butter      Origin: Britain
Black-eyed Beans and Plantain Pottage      Origin: Nigeria	Bygan Dhal      Origin: India	Carlin Pea Hummus      Origin: Britain
Black-eyed Pea Gumbo      Origin: Cajun	Byrger Ffa (Bean Burger)      Origin: Welsh	Carlin Pea Masala      Origin: Britain
Blueberry Smoothie      Origin: American	Cëebu Jen II      Origin: Senegal
Boiled French Beans      Origin: British	Caccabinam Minorem (Small Casserole)      Origin: Roman

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