Dry beans can make delicious, yet simple and natural, dishes. Nothing tastes more of the country and no recipe worms and satisfies like a bean dish. Cheap, healthy and comforting, beans are also incredible healthful and, if cooked properly, superb.

Bean Cuisine

Although beans do not make much of an appearance in what is known as haute cuisine, some of the best known recipes in the world cont with beans as their main ingredient.

Find them stewed and perfumed with garlic and herbs in the Mediterranean, in the shape of a ball flavored with cumin and coriander in the Middle East, find them highly spiced as soups, dosas or vadas in India. Find tofu or sauces made of soy bean in China or Japan, and find beans in extremely filling soups, chilli con carne or refried in South America or Mexico. And find all those and more in North America there is an American bean cuisine with more recipes than baked beans, it shows influences from all over the world.