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 825 recipes in total:

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Poppadoms      Origin: India	Re-fried Beans II      Origin: Mexico	Salmon and Couscous en Papillote      Origin: British
Pork and Beans      Origin: American	Red Bean Paste      Origin: China	Salmon Durban Curry      Origin: Fusion
Pork and Quince Curry      Origin: Britain	Red Bean Soup with Guacamole Salsa      Origin: Mexico	Salomi      Origin: South Africa
Pork Menudo      Origin: Philippines	Red Lentil Dosa      Origin: India	Sambar Podi (Sambar Powder)      Origin: India
Porotos con Riendas (Bean and Pumpkin Soup)      Origin: Chile	Red Lentil Pancakes      Origin: Fusion	Sambhar (Lentil Curry)      Origin: India
Potage Fene Boiles (A Broad Bean Pudding)      Origin: England	Red Pepper and Chickpea Salad      Origin: Ecuador	Sambhar Masala      Origin: India
Potage St Germain (Pea Soup St Germain)      Origin: France	Red-red      Origin: Ghana	Samp and Beans Croquettes      Origin: South Africa
Potato and Aubergine Layer Pie      Origin: British	Red-red with Spiced Plantains      Origin: Ghana	Samphire and Crab Salad      Origin: Britain
Potato and Bean Casserole with Tomatoes      Origin: Ireland	Restaurant-style Chakalaka      Origin: South Africa	Sancoche      Origin: Trinidad
Pounded Beans      Origin: Burundi	Revithia (Chickpea Soup)      Origin: Greece	Sattu      Origin: India
Powsowdie      Origin: Scotland	Ribollita      Origin: Italy	Sautéed Chickpeas      Origin: South Sudan
Prawn Caldine      Origin: India	Rice and Peas      Origin: Jamaica	Schurbat Adas Ma Qar (Iraqi Lentil and Pumpkin Soup)      Origin: Iraq
Prebranac (Serbian-style Baked Beans)      Origin: Serbia	Rice and Peas      Origin: Saint Kitts	Scottish Green Pea Soup      Origin: Scotland
Prekese Drink (Soup Perfume Bean Drink)      Origin: Ghana	Rice with Pigeon Peas      Origin: Puerto Rico	Scottish Haricot Bean Soup      Origin: Scotland
Pressure Cooker Baked Beans      Origin: American	Rich Minestrone Soup      Origin: British	Scottish Lentil Soup      Origin: Scotland
Pressure Cooker Calico Bean Stew      Origin: American	Risotto alla Paesana (Risotto with Beans and Bacon)      Origin: Italy	Seafood Chili      Origin: American
Pressure Cooker Chana Aloo Curry (Pressure Cooker Chickpea Curry)      Origin: Britain	Risotto con Prosciutto e Piselli (Risotto with Ham and Peas)      Origin: Italy	Seam, Potato and Peas Chakee      Origin: Anglo-Indian
Pressure Cooker Dhal      Origin: Fusion	Riz et Pois Collés (Haitian Rice with Peas)      Origin: Haiti	Seam, Potato, and Peas Chahkee      Origin: Anglo-Indian
Pressure Cooker Pea and Ham Soup      Origin: Britain	Riz haricots rouges antillais (Antillean Red Beans and Rice)      Origin: Guadeloupe	Seaweed Ribollita      Origin: Fusion
Pressure Cooker Quick Lentil Soup      Origin: Britain	Roadhouse Chili Pizza      Origin: American	Seengre ke Satha Tori Kari (Courgette Curry with Radish Pods)      Origin: India
Puffball Patties      Origin: Britain	Roast Salmon Chowder      Origin: Britain	Senegalese Vegetable Stew with Millet      Origin: Senegal
Pullum Elixum ex Iure Suo (Boiled Chicken with Boiled Egyptian Beans)      Origin: Roman	Roasted Chickpeas      Origin: American	Sharbat Adas (Libyan Lentil Soup)      Origin: Libya
Pumpkin and Tomato Soup      Origin: West Africa	Roasted Hosta Shoots      Origin: Britain	Shisa Nyama      Origin: South Africa
Pumpkin Chili      Origin: American	Roasted Kalettes with Basa Fillets and Anchovies      Origin: Britain	Shisa Nyama      Origin: eSwatini
Pumpkin Curry      Origin: Britain	Rosemary-scented Lamb      Origin: Britain	Shishwala (Maize Porridge)      Origin: eSwatini
Pumpkin Hummus      Origin: American	Rwandan Agatogo (Rwandan Beans with Cassava)      Origin: Rwanda	Shorbat Adas (Jordanian Red Lentil Soup)      Origin: Jordan
Punjabi Lobia (Black-eyed Bean Curry)      Origin: Sri Lanka	Saag Dhal with Carrot Greens      Origin: Fusion	Shorbat Adas (Lebanese Red Lentil Soup)      Origin: Lebanon
Puran Poli      Origin: India	Saag Dhal with Wild Carrot Greens      Origin: Fusion	Shorbet Ads (Sudanese Lentil Soup)      Origin: Sudan
Quiche au thon et légumes (Tuna and Vegetable Quiche)      Origin: Saint Pierre	Saba Rice and Black Beans      Origin: Saba	Shourabit Silq bi Laban (Chard and Yoghurt Soup)      Origin: Lebanon
Quick Doubanjiang      Origin: Fusion	Sahina      Origin: Trinidad	Sichuan Hot Pot Soup Base      Origin: China
Rajma (Kidney Bean Curry)      Origin: Bangladesh	Saint Kitts Chicken Bouillon      Origin: Saint Kitts	Sinigang na Baboy (Pork Sinigang)      Origin: Philippines
Rajmah Curry      Origin: India	Saint Lucian Bouillon      Origin: Saint Lucia	Sint Eustatius Rice and Black Beans      Origin: Sint Eustatius
Rangood na Vaal (Gujarati Butter Bean Curry)      Origin: India	Saint Vincent Chicken Pelau      Origin: Saint Vincent
Rasam Powder      Origin: India	Salmagundi with Herby Rack of Lamb      Origin: Britain

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