Explore: Dry Beans

soups. Most dry beans contain 21–25% protein by weight; dry soybeans are 36.5% protein by weight. Bean salad Beans on toast, Greece Bean soup Cassoulet

with 23% of the total. Raw dry beans contain the toxic compound phytohaemagglutinin, which can be deactivated by cooking beans for ten minutes at boiling

features in such dishes as baked beans, various soups such as Senate bean soup, and bean pies. The plants that produce navy beans may be either of the bush type

Rice and beans, or beans and rice, is a category of dishes from many cultures around the world, whereby the staple foods of rice and beans are combined

for dry beans. Baby lima beans are planted in early June and harvested about ten to twelve weeks later. In western New York State, baby lima bean production

response to the consumption of broad beans, a condition linked to a metabolic disorder known as G6PDD. Otherwise the beans, with the outer seed coat removed

the process of making tofu, it should be lifted off and dried to give doufu pi (literally "bean curd skin") which is itself a delicious food ingredient

as elephant beans. In Austria the coloured versions are cultivated and served as "Käferbohnen" ("beetle-bean"), a dish made of the dry beans with pumpkin

of kidney bean stew usually served with rice is known as fasoulia. To make bean paste, kidney beans are generally prepared from dried beans and boiled

Great Northern beans. After cooking, however, the specks vanish and the beans take on a more even, darker color. A new cranberry bean variety, 'Crimson'