Mediterranean European Bean Dishes

• (OWK) Luard: The Old World Kitchen: The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking
• (CBSS) Bernard Clayton: The Complete Book of Soups and Stews

France

• (FPC) David: French Provincial Cooking
• (FRC) Willan: French Regional Cooking
• Salade de flageolets (OWK)
• Légumes en salade (FPC)
• Salade de pois chiches (chickpeas) (FPC, 🔗1)
• La soupe aux pois chiches (chickpeas) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Potage aux haricots blancs et à l’oseille (white beans, sorrel) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Potage de lentilles à l’oseille (lentils, sorrel) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Fèves au beurre (young fava) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Fèves à la crème (fresh fava) (🔗1)
• Purée de fèves (young fava) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Haricots à la crème (white beans, cream) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Haricots blancs maître d’hôtel (white beans, parsley butter) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Lentilles maître d’hôtel (lentils, parsley butter) (FPC, 🔗1)
• Lentilles au petit salé (lentils, salt pork) (🔗1)
• Haricots au vin rouge (white beans, red wine) (FPC, 🔗1)

Alsace-Lorraine

• Potée Lorraine (white beans, fresh/split peas, pork, vegetables) (FRC, 🔗1)

Auvergne

• Salade de Lentilles Vertes du Puy (🔗1 🔗2)

Brittany

• Haricots à la bretonne (white beans, onion, tomato) (FPC, FRC, 🔗1)
• Gratin de thon aux haricots secs (white beans, tuna) (FRC, 🔗1)

Burgundy

• Haricots au vin (kidney beans, wine) (Willan: The Cooking of Burgundy and the Lyonnais, 🔗1)

Loire

• Fèves à la tourangelle (fresh fava, ham) (FRC, 🔗1)

Normandy

• Soupe normande (potato, cabbage, white beans) (FRC, 🔗1)

Occitanie

• (SDF) Conran: Sud de France: the food and cooking of Languedoc
• Cassoulet de Castelnaudary (OWK)
• Cassoulet de Toulouse (white beans, meat) (FRC, SDF)
• Pois chiches à l’occitane (FRC)
• Soupe de pois chiches et épinards (SDF)
• Haricots secs en salade (white beans, tomato, egg) (FRC)
• Cousinat à la bayonnaise (fresh fava, ham, vegetables) (FRC)
• Soupe aux pois chiches (chickpea soup) (FRC)
• Pois chiches au gras (chickpeas, sausage, salt pork) (FRC)
• Haricots a vanchot’ade (white/lima beans, anchovies) (SDF)
• Salade de la province de bages (salt cod, white or cranberry beans, olives) (SDF)
• Fèves au lardon (fava, bacon) (SDF)
• Mongetes catalan (large white beans/soissons, tomato) (SDF)
• L’ollada/ouillade (white beans or chickpeas, winter vegetables, black pudding) (SDF)
• Garbure (white beans, meat, vegetables, chestnuts, bread) (CBSS)

Provence

• (TCS) Johnston: The Cuisine of the Sun: Classical French Cooking from Nice and Provence
• Socca (OWK)
• Soupe au pistou (FRC, TCS)
• Bean salad (chickpeas/lentils/white beans) (TCS)
• Févettes à l’ail (baby lima) (TCS)
• Févettes à la verdure (baby lima, lettuce) (TCS)
• Salade blanche (white beans/lentils/chickpeas) (TCS)
• Daube d’Avignon (lamb, white beans) (TCS)
• Salade niçoise (fresh baby lima) (TCS)
• Agneau à la niçoise (fresh baby lima, lamb, vegetables) (TCS)
• Soupe de lentilles (TCS)
• Panisses (chickpea flour) (TCS)
• Socca (chickpea flour) (TCS)
• Fournade (chickpea flour soup) (TCS)
• Pois chiches marines (chickpeas, white wine, herbs) (TCS)
• Soupe de pois chiches à la sauge (chickpea and sage soup) (TCS)

Italy

• (FBC) Judith Barrett: Fagioli: The Bean Cuisine of Italy

White Beans

• Crostini di fagioli bianchi (FBC)
• Bruschetta di fagioli e pomodori (FBC)
• Insalata tessa (tuna) (FBC)
• Fagioli e cotiche (pork rind) (FBC)
• Pasta e fagioli con la salsiccia (ditalini) (FBC)
• Conchiglie con fagioli e sogliola (sole, conchigliette) (FBC)

Runner Beans

• Insalata di corone (corona beans) (FBC)

Chickpeas

• Spuma di ceci con crostii di pane (FBC)
• Insalata di ceci mediterranea (olives) (FBC)
• Insalata di ceci e verdure (FBC)
• Crema di ceci (FBC)

Lentils

• Crostini di lenticchio (FBC)
• Insalata di lenticchie (FBC)
• Lenticchie e finocchio brasati (fennel) (FBC)
• Minestra di lenticchie e bietole (Swiss chard) (FBC)

Fava

• Crostini di fave bianche (skinned split fava) (FBC)
• Insalata di fave fresche e pecorini (fresh baby fava) (FBC)

Cranberry/Borlotti Beans

• Zuppa di fagioli, pasta, e pomodoro (fettuccine) (FBC)

Multiple

• Zuppa di ceci con funghi porcini secchi (chickpeas, dried porcini mushrooms) (FBC)

Northern Italy

• Pennette ai legumi (mixed beans, penne, rosemary) (FBC)
• Minestra di ceci e maiale (chickpeas, pork) (FBC)

Friuli

• Polenta con fagioli e sugo di pomodoro (fagioli di lamon or cranberry beans, prosciutto, tomato sauce, polenta) (FBC)
• Jota (cranberry beans, sauerkraut) (FBC)

Lazio / Rome

• Insalata di ceci e calamari (chickpeas, squid) (FBC)
• Lenticchie alla romana (lentils, prosciutto) (FBC)
• Pennerele con ceci (chickpeas, beef) (FBC)

Liguria

• Farinata (chickpea flour) (FBC)
• Frittelle di fagioli e cipolle (white bean and onion fritters) (FBC)
• Insalata calda di fagioli e calamari al pesto (white beans, squid, pesto) (FBC)
• Insalata di carciofi, fagioli, e gamberi (white beans, artichoke, shrimp) (FBC)
• Minestrone genovese (cranberry beans, vegetables, pasta) (FBC)
• Zuppa di fagioli alle erbette (white beans, Swiss chard) (FBC)
• Mes-ciua (chickpeas, white beans, farro) (FBC)
• Pasta e fagioli della liguria (white beans, quadrucci) (FBC)
• Polenta incantata (cranberry beans, kale, polenta) (FBC)
• Fagioli della sagra (white beans, veal, sausage) (FBC)
• Agnello e fagioli di pigna (white beans, lamb) (FBC)

Lombardy

• Lenticchie alla lombardia (lentils, pancetta) (FBC)
• Riso alla valtellina (white beans, kale, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Risotto con fagioli dell’occhio e pancetta croccante (black-eyed peas, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Risotto pavese (cranberry beans, pancetta, arborio rice) (Pavia) (FBC)
• Risotto della contadina (cranberry beans, pancetta, cabbage, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Spezzatino di salsiccia, fave, e fagioli (white beans, fresh fava, sausage) (FBC)
• Guazzetto di pesce e fagioli cannellini (white beans, monkfish) (FBC)

Piemonte

• Zuppa di cereali e fagioli (Bra) (farro, chickpeas, cranberry beans) (FBC)
• Ola al forno (cranberry beans, veal, vegetables in a ceramic pot) (FBC)

Tuscany

• Sformatini di fagioli bianchi e bietole (white bean custard with chard and tomato sauce) (FBC)
• Insalata di fagioli agli scampi (white beans, shrimp, tomato) (FBC)
• Insalata di polpo e fagioli (octopus, white beans) (FBC)
• Insalata di cannellini e frutti di mare (white beans, seafood) (FBC)
• Ceco con bietole in zimino (Swiss chard) (FBC)
• Fagioli all’uccelletto (white beans, tomato sauce) (FBC)
• Fagioli al forno (oven-baked white beans) (FBC x2)
• Minestrone toscano (white beans) (FBC)
• Minestrone di pane toscano (white beans) (FBC)
• Minestra di riso e fagioli (white beans, prosciutto, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Zuppa toscana di fagioli (mixed beans) (FBC)
• Zuppa di fagioli alla fiorentina (white beans) (FBC)
• Zuppa di lenticchie (lentils) (FBC)
• Zuppa di fagioli e farro (Florence) (white beans, farro) (FBC)
• Zuppa della garfagnana (white beans, cranberry beans, farro) (FBC)
• Pasta e fagioli alla fiorentina (white beans, ditalini) (FBC)
• Zuppa di pasta e ceci (chickpeas, ditalini) (FBC)
• Zuppa di pasta, fagioli, e patate (white beans, potatoes, ditalini) (FBC)
• Zuppa di pasta e fagioli pisana (white beans, ditalini) (FBC)
• Zuppa di legumi e pasta (cranberry beans, lentils, split peas, ditalini) (FBC)
• Rotini con sugo di cannellini (rotini, white bean sauce) (FBC)
• Tagliatelle a ragu luccese (town of Lucca) (tagliatelle with kidney bean sauce) (FBC)
• Pasta rustica con ceci (chickpeas, spinach, pancetta) (FBC)
• Minestrone livornese (white beans, bread) (Livorno) (FBC)
• Cacciucco di ceci livornese (chickpeas, Swiss chard, anchovies) (Livorno) (FBC)
• Spezzatino di pollo e fagioli (whiteb eans, chicken thighs) (Livorno) (FBC)

Umbria

• Insalata di lenticchie e formaggio (lentils, cheese) (FBC)
• Fagioli e olio (white beans, olive oil) (FBC)
• Minestrone di cicerchie (cicerchie or chickpeas) (FBC)
• Zuppa di ciccerchie e finocchio (cicerchie or chickpeas, fennel, pancetta) (FBC)
• Zuppa di ceci e farro (chickpeas, faro) (FBC)
• Zuppa di fave e farro (skinned split fava, farro) (FBC)
• Zuppa di orzo perlato e fave (skinned split fava, pearl barley) (FBC)
• Passato di fagioli e asparagi (white beans, asparagus) (FBC)
• Passato di fave al finocchio (skinned split fava, fennel) (FBC)
• Zuppa di fagioli del purgatorio (white beans, conchigliette) (FBC)
• Minestra di riso e lenticchie (lentils, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Verdurata di farro (white beans, farro) (FBC)
• Lenticchie con salsicce (lentils, sausage) (FBC)
• Lenticchie stufate ed osso uco di agnello (lentils, lamb) (Castelluccio) (FBC)

Veneto

• Insalata de fagioli con alici e erbe (cranberry beans, anchovies) (FBC)
• Insalata di fagioli e bottarga (white beans) (FBC)
• Fagioli di lamon con cipolla (fagioli di lamon or cranberry beans) (FBC)
• Fagioli alla veneziana (fagioli di lamon or cranberry beans, anchovies) (FBC)
• Fasoi in potacin (cranberry beans, tomato sauce) (FBC)
• Zuppa di orzo e faioli (cranberry beans, barley) (FBC)
• Passato di fagioli borlotti alla veneta (cranberry beans) (FBC)
• Pasta e fagioli alla veneta (cranberry beans, tagliatelle) (FBC)
• Riso e fasoi alla friulana (fagioli di lamon or cranberry beans, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Risotto di fagioli alla veneta (cranberry beans, prosciutto, arborio rice) (FBC)
• Polenta e fagioli al veneto (cranberry beans, tomatoes, polenta) (FBC)
• Zuppa di ceci e frutti di mare (chickpeas, seafood) (FBC)

Southern Italy

• Zuppa di lenticchie e funghi (dried porcini mushroooms, lentils) (FBC)

Abruzzo

• Minestrone abruzzese (white beans) (FBC)

Calabria

• Millecosedde dalla calabria (mixed beans, spaghetti, cabbage) (FBC)
• Macco di fave (skinned split fava, spaghetti) (FBC)
• Lagane e fagioli (white beans, lasagna pasta) (FBC)

Campania

• Fagioli alla maruzzara (white beans, tomateos, bread) (town of San Giovanni) (FBC)
• Pasta e fagioli all’ischitana (island of Ischia) (white beans, spaghetti) (FBC)
• Cicatta al cilento (mixed beans, farro, pearl barley) (FBC)
• Zuppa di fagioli e vongole (white beans, clams) (FBC)
• Zuppa di lenticchie e castagne (lentils, chestnuts) (Naples) (FBC)

Puglia

• Crostini di fave con la buccia (dried whole fava) (FBC)
• Fave arrostite (whole dry fava) (FBC)
• Fave con cicoria (skinned split fava, chicory) (FBC)
• Passato di fave e carciofi (skinned split fava, artichokes) (FBC)
• Orecchiette con cicerchie e funghi (cicerchie or chickpeas) (FBC)
• Tria con lenticchie (city of Bari) (lentils, tagliatelle) (FBC)
• Cavatellini con fagioli e cozze (white beans, cavatellini, mussels) (FBC)
• Petto di pollo con salvia e fagioli (white beans, chicken) (FBC)
• Coniglio con i ceci (chickpeas, rabbit) (FBC)

Sardinia

• Minestra di scarola e fagioli cannellini (white beans, escarole) (FBC)
• Pernice con lenticchie (lentils, partridge) (FBC)

Malta

• Bigilla (whole fava bean dip) (🔗1)
• Fazola bajda bit-tewm u tursin (white bean salad) (🔗1)
• Pulpetti (kohlrabi, fresh fava beans) (🔗1)
• Kusksu (fresh fava, peas, couscous) (🔗1)

Spain

• (1080) Ortega: 1080 Recipes
• (MKS) Mendel: My Kitchen in Spain
• (TFS) Roden: The Food of Spain
• (1000) Casas: 1000 Spanish Recipes
• (TCS) Barrenechea: The Cuisines of Spain
• Resto de cucido en forma de budin (leftover stew bake with eggs) (1080)
• Cocido (bean stew) (OWK)

White Beans

• Potaje con acelgas, patatas, judias blancas y arroz (1080)
• Potaje sencillo (navy beans, bacon, ham, cabbage) (1080)
• Puré de judias blancas (navy beans, butter, flour) (1080)
• Guiso con arroz, judias rojas, bacon y pimiento (1080)
• Judias blancas guisadas (navy beans, sausage) (1080)
• Judias blancas en ensalada (1080)
• Judias blancas con costra (navy beans with egg topping) (1080)
• Judias blancas guisada con morcillas (navy beans, blood sausage) (1080)
• Judias blancas de adorno (1080)
• Judias blancas con salchichas y bacon (1080)
• Empedrado (white beans, salt cod) (MKS)
• Ensalada de judías con arenque (white beans, herring) (1000)

Pinto Beans

• Judias pintas o encarnadas con vino tinto (pinto or kidney, red wine) (1080)
• Judias pintas con arroz (1080)

Runner Beans

• Fabada (Asturian beans, onion, olive oil, meat) (1080)
• Fabes con almejas (Asturian beans, clams) (1080, 1000)

Chickpeas

• Puré de garbanzos (1080, 1000)
• Garbanzos aliñados (1080)
• Garbanzos refritos (1080, 1000)
• Garbanzos a lo pobre (1080)
• Potaje con espinacas (1080)
• Potaje con arroz y patates (chickpeas) (1080)
• Boronia (chickpea, pumpkin) (MKS)
• Garbanzos aliñados (1000)
• Cocido gallego con bolos (chickpeas, dumplings) (1000)
• Sopa de garbanzos y chorizo (1000)
• Arroz empedrat (chickpeas) (1000)

Lentils

• Puré de lentejas (1080)
• Lentejas guisadas (1080)
• Lentejas con tocino y salchichas (1080)
• Lentejas en ensalada (1080)
• Ensalada de lentejas (1000)
• Lentejas con espinacas (1000)
• Arroz de cordero, lentejas y berenjena (lamb, lentil, eggplant paella) (1000)

Peas

• Puré de guisantes secos (dried peas, bacon, carrots, onion) (1080)
• Puré de guisantes secos con leche (dried peas, veal shank bone, milk) (1080)

Fava Beans

• Habas con huevos (1080)
• Habas salteadas con jamón (1080)
• Habas con morcilla (1080)
• Habas con leche y yemas (1080)
• Habas en salsa (1080)
• Habas guisadas (1080)
• Habas fritas de adorno (1080)
• Habas con jamón (baby lima, ham) (1000)

Black-Eyed Peas

• Potaje de chicharos (black-eyed peas) (MKS)
• Potaje de castañas y alubias (MKS)

Black Beans

• Moros y cristianos (black beans, rice)
• Arroz a la cubana (1000)

Andalusia

• Sopa de lentejas (OWK, MKS, 1000)
• Berza andaluza (chickpeas, meat, pears) (MKS)
• Garbanzos con espinacas (MKS)
• Judias blancas con castañas (white or lima, chestnuts) (TFS)
• Tortilla de habas (lima beans) (1000)
• Gazpacho blanco de habas (fresh lima beans) (1000)
• Habichuelas con perdiz (white beans, partridge) (1000)
• Potaje de garbanzos y chocos (chickpea, cuttlefish) (1000)
• Habas a la andaluza (fresh lima, artichoke) (1000)
• Albóndigas de semana santa (chickpeas, white beans, salt cod) (Pizarro: Andalusia)
• Olla de trigo (soup with wheat berries) (🔗1)

Aragon

• (NAC) Altamiras: New Art of Cookery
• Potage de judias secas (NAC)
• Otro modo de guisar judias (olive oil and herbs / saffron / olive oil and wine vinegar / cheese and breadcrumbs / rice) (NAC)
• Abas secas (fava) (NAC)
• Garbanzos comunes (spinach and rice / hazelnut and egg / egg yolks / salt cod) (NAC)
• Guisantes secos (split peas, leeks) (NAC)
• Lentejas de aragón (TCS)

Asturia

• Fabada asturiana (MKS, TFS, 1000, TCS)
• Ensalada de judías blancas (1000)
• Pote asturiano (white bean, cabbage) (TCS)
• Fabes con almejas (TCS)

Cádiz

• El puchero de todos los dias (MKS)

Canary Islands

• Buñuelos de garbanzos (1000)
• Potaje de berros (watercress, corn, white beans) (TCS)

Cantabria

• Alubias con almejas (white beans, clams) (TFS)

Castilla y León

• Pochas con bacalao (fresh white beans, cod) (1 2)
• Potaje de lentejas (TFS)
• Potaje de garbanzos y espinacas (TFS)
• Garbanzos a la Zamorana (1000)
• Cocido maragoto (chickpea, meat, vegetable) (TCS)

Catalonia

• (CF) Olivella: Catalan Food
• (PC) Pizarro: Catalonia
• Faves amb pèsols (fava beans with peas) (CF)
• Cigrons amb espinacs (chickpeas with spinach) (CF)
• Xoriço amb cigrons (chorizo and chickpeas) (CF)
• Favada ràpida (chorizo and morcilla bean stew) (white beans) (CF)
• Habas a la catalana (MKS)
• Butifarra amb mongetes (white beans, sausage) (PC)
• Chickpeas with mushrooms (PC)
• Habas a la brutesca (fresh baby fava) (PC)
• Baby squid with broad beans and mint (PC)
• Guisantes y habas con jamon (fava, fresh peas, ham) (TFS)
• Tortilla catalana (1000)
• Ensalada de habas a la catalana (lima beans) (1000)
• Empedrat (1000)
• Judías blancas (small white beans) (1000)
• Garbanzos a la catalana (chickpeas, tomato, sausage) (1000)
• Arroz con costra (chickpeas) (1000)
• Escudella i carn d’olla (chickpeas, white beans, meat, dumplings) (TCS)
• Truita amb suc (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)

Extremadura

• Lentejas a la extremeña (TCS)

Galicia

• Pote/Caldo Gallego (white beans, ham, beef, greens) (1080, MKS, TFS, TCS)

Basque Country

• (BC) Buckley: Basque Country
• (TBK) Hirigoyen: The Basque Kitchen
• Barazki menestra (spring vegetable stew) (fresh fava) (BC)
• Babak “Vitoriana” Erara (fresh fava) (BC)
• Tolosako babarrunak (tolosa beans) (BC)
• Potaje de alubias negras (The Spanish, Middle Eastern, and African Cookbook)
• Potxak nafar erara (fresh shelled white beans) (BC)
• Lursagar eta barbarruntxuri salda oliba (white beans) (town of Ciboure) (TBK)
• Garbure (1, TBK)
• Biperrak eta baba txuri gratin (white beans, peppers) (TBK)
• Lursagar berri eta babarrun saltsa (romano beans, potato) (TBK)
• Baba saltsa (fava bean gratin) (TBK)
• Dilistak xingarekin (green lentils, bacon) (TBK)
• Garbantzuak (baked chickpeas) (TBK)
• Babarrun txuriak (white beans) (TBK)
• Alubias rojas a la vasca/a la tolosana (TBK, TFS, 1000)
• Alubias rojas de tolosa (1000, TCS)

La Mancha

• (CHS) Mendel: Cooking from the Heart of Spain
• Revuelto con habas (eggs, fresh fava) (CHS)
• Cazuela de habas (fava, escarole) (CHS)
• Bolos con ajiaceite (beans with garlic sauce) (CHS)
• Olleta (fresh fava, vegetables, sausage) (CHS)
• Judías con perdiz (partridge, beans) (CHS)
• Pollo con andrajos (chicken, pinto, pasta) (CHS)
• Ensalada de alubias con taquillos de chorizo (pinto or kidney)
• Gachas (chickpea porridge) (CHS)
• Gachas manchegas (grass pea flour) (🔗1)
• Puré de garbanzos con pan frito (CHS)
• Lentejas con chorizo (CHS)
• Lentejas para viernes (CHS)
• Potje de carillas con sofrito (black-eyed peas) (CHS)
• Potage de garbanzos y espinacas con rellenos (cod dumplings) (CHS)

Madrid

• Potaje de garbanzo (1000)
• Cocido madrileño (chickpeas, meat, vegetables) (TCS, 1000)

Murcia

• Arroz meloso con alcachofas, habas, y guisantes (rice, fava, peas)
• Michirones picanticos (fresh lima beans) (1000)

Navarre

• Menestra de primavera (fresh fava) (TFS)

La Rioja

• Cordornices con pochas “Santo Domingo de la Calzada” (quail, lima beans) (1000)
• Pochas a la riojana (fresh white beans, pork) (TCS)

Segovia

• Potaje de judías (1000)

Valencia

• Paella valenciana (lima beans) (CF)
• Arroz al horno (baked rice, chickpeas) (TFS, 1000, TCS)
• Arroz con pato (chickpeas, duck) (1000)
• Arroz tropical tasca del puerto (1000)
• Arroz con alubias y nabos (rice, white beans, turnips) (TCS)

Portugal

• (PTC) Carreira: Portugal: The Cookbook
• Caldo à Lavrador (cabbage, red beans, pasta) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Favas com entrecosto (fava beans, spare ribs) (🔗1)
• Feijoada de chocos (cuttlefish, white beans) (🔗1)
• Bacalhau com feijão frade (cod, black-eyed peas) (🔗1)
• Arroz de feijão (🔗1)
• Feijão branco com chouriço e ovos escalfados (white beans, chorizo, eggs) (🔗1)
• Salada de feijão frade (black-eyed peas, tuna, eggs) (🔗1)
• Feijão guisado com ovos escalfados (red beans, eggs, pork ribs, chorizo) (🔗1)
• Dobrada / Tripas à moda do Porto (tripe, white beans) (🔗1)
• Cozido (stew) (🔗1)