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Dal Makhani
Black urad lentils and kidney beans simmered overnight, then finished with butter and cream until the dal is almost…
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Dinner
Paella Valenciana
The Valencian original, with chicken, rabbit and beans rather than seafood, cooked flat in a wide pan until a…
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Appetizers
Loaded Nachos
The real thing, not a pile of chips with sauce poured over: every chip laid out individually, each one bearing its…
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Dinner
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…
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Dinner
Chili con Carne
A long-simmered chilli built on toasted whole spices and a hit of dark chocolate, with the beef cut into cubes…
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Lunch
Mission-Style Burrito
San Francisco's contribution to world food: a steamed flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa…
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Dinner
Mapo Tofu
Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteen…
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Dinner
Ropa Vieja
Flank steak simmered until it shreds, then stewed in a sofrito of peppers, onions, olives and cumin until the sauce…
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Dinner
Rice and Peas
Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans, thyme, spring onion and a whole scotch bonnet left in and lifted out…
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Dinner
Refried Beans
Pinto beans simmered with onion and then mashed into their own broth in hot lard until they are creamy, glossy and…
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Breakfast
Arepas
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
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Dinner
Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta and beans, cooked together so the pasta starch thickens the broth into something between a soup and a stew…
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Dinner
Ghormeh Sabzi
The Persian herb stew: several bunches of herbs fried down almost to black, with lamb, kidney beans and dried limes…
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Breakfast
Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
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Healthy
Rajma Masala
Kidney beans simmered in a thick onion-tomato masala until the gravy is dark and the beans give under a spoon…
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Lunch
Ribollita
Tuscan bread soup: cannellini beans, cavolo nero and soffritto cooked down, thickened with stale bread and then…
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Dinner
Mapo Eggplant
Aubergine fried until it collapses, then simmered in doubanjiang, garlic and Sichuan pepper. The vegetarian cousin…
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Healthy
Minestrone Soup
A big, generous vegetable soup built on a slow soffritto and thickened by the beans themselves rather than cream…
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Feijoada Brasileira
Brazil's national dish: black beans slow-cooked with an armoury of smoked and salted pork, served with rice, collard…
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Dinner
Twice-Cooked Pork
Sichuan's huiguorou: pork belly simmered whole, cooled, sliced paper-thin and returned to a searing wok with…
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Dinner
Soupe au Pistou
A Provençal summer vegetable soup finished at the table with pistou — basil, garlic and olive oil pounded to a…
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Lunch
Boston Baked Beans
Navy beans baked for six hours with molasses, salt pork and mustard until the sauce is dark and thick and the beans…
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Dinner
Bandeja Paisa
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
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Dinner
Fabada Asturiana
Enormous creamy fabes beans stewed with chorizo, morcilla and pork shoulder until the broth turns orange with…
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Healthy
Fasolada
White beans simmered with carrot, celery and tomato in a great deal of olive oil. Often called the national dish of…
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Dinner
Cassoulet de Toulouse
The great slow-cooked bean casserole of southwest France: white beans, confit duck, sausage and pork built into…
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Dinner
Lobio
Red kidney beans stewed with onion, coriander, walnuts and blue fenugreek, mashed slightly and eaten hot from a clay…
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Lunch
Tuna and White Bean Salad
Tinned tuna and cannellini beans dressed with lemon, olive oil and red onion — the Tuscan store-cupboard lunch, and…
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Quick Meals
Ful Medames
Slow-cooked fava beans crushed with garlic, lemon, cumin and a great deal of olive oil — Egypt eats it for…
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Dinner
Chicken Tortilla Soup
A brothy Mexican soup with real depth: dried chillies toasted and blended into the base, chicken poached in it and…
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Dinner
Pabellón Criollo
Venezuela's national plate: shredded beef, black beans, white rice and fried sweet plantain, served side by side and…
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Healthy
Cuban Black Bean Soup
Dried beans, a sofrito built on cumin and green pepper, and a ham of smoke from nothing but paprika. Thick enough to…
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Healthy
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos
Sweet potato roasted with chipotle until the edges char, black beans warmed with lime, and a quick pickled onion for…
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Dinner
Tuscan White Bean Stew
Cannellini beans, kale and a whole head of garlic softened into a broth thickened by mashing a ladleful of the…
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Appetizers
Ta'ameya
Egypt's falafel, and a genuinely different thing from the Levantine one: split broad beans rather than chickpeas, a…
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Appetizers
Besara
Broad beans cooked to a purée with an enormous quantity of green herbs, poured out flat and topped with fried onion…
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Lunch
Hlelem
A thick soup of hand-broken noodles, three kinds of bean and a lot of greens, red with harissa. Winter food from the…
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Appetizers
Chicken Feet in Black Bean Sauce
Chicken feet deep-fried, soaked until they puff, then braised in black bean and steamed. Three stages, two days, and…
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Dinner
Duo Jiao Yu Tou
A split fish head steamed under a mound of chopped salted red chillies. Hunan's signature, and it uses fresh pickled…
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Dinner
Steamed Ribs with Black Bean
Bite-sized ribs marinated with fermented black beans and garlic, steamed for twenty-five minutes on a plate. Easier…
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Dinner
Home-Style Tofu
Tofu triangles fried until golden and puffed, then braised with pork and doubanjiang. What Sichuan households cook…
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Desserts
Red Bean Soup
Adzuki beans cooked to collapse with rock sugar and dried tangerine peel, eaten warm or cold. Barely sweet, and…
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Dinner
Jjajangmyeon
Thick wheat noodles under a black bean sauce of pork and diced vegetables. Korea's most-ordered delivery food, eaten…
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Lunch
Minestrone
Whatever vegetables are about, cooked long and slow with beans and a little pasta. Under an hour, and it improves…
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Breakfast
Baleadas
A thick flour tortilla folded over refried beans, cream and crumbled cheese. Honduras's breakfast, and thirty minutes.
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Appetizers
Chili Cheese Fries
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
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