Recipes with tinned beans
Got a tin of beans? Then you’ve got a meal in the making. This collection has all sorts of ideas for canned haricots, cannellini, butter, kidney, borlotti and mixed beans in it – and you might be surprised at what you can create, and it’s not just stews and casseroles.
Most of these recipes use at least one if not two large tins of beans.
Showing 1-16 of 43 recipes
Casserole recipes
Chicken sausage casserole
This deeply satisfying one-pot combines light chicken sausages, beloved chorizo and creamy beans and chickpeas in a rich tomato sauce....
Easy vegan recipes
Prebranac (caramelised-onion baked beans)
Georgina Hayden’s prebranac recipe – a traditional Serbian dish of slow-cooked butter beans with caramelised onions – takes homemade baked...
Clam recipes
Mussels and clams with beans and sobrasada
For dinner with a difference, try this impressive mussels recipe. Simmer mussels and clams with sherry, white beans and sobrasada...
Delicious recipes for one person
Scotch egg toast
The pub classic is reworked with a healthy twist in our scotch egg toast recipe. Pile soft-boiled eggs, butter beans...
Chilli recipes
Smoky vegan chilli
Serve up a smoky vegan chilli with our easy recipe. This plant-based chilli is packed with aubergine and black beans...
Slow cook recipes
Beef cheek and bean ragù
Perfect with pasta or crusty bread, this rich beef cheek and cannellini bean ragù can be cooked in the oven...
Brunch recipes
Easy huevos rancheros
When it comes to breakfast, huevos rancheros (ranch eggs) is the full Mexican. This weekend-treat deserves to become your Saturday...
Recipes with tinned beans
Veggie bean casserole with pesto garlic croûtes
This hearty fennel and bean casserole makes a great vegetarian option for lunch or a Christmas buffet. Serve with crisp...
Recipes with tinned beans
Sausage, fennel and flageolet bean traybake
Slowly-braised sausages with lemon, fennel and flageolet beans is one low-effort, maxmium flavour dinner. Batch cook and freeze extra portions....
Healthy fish recipes
Spiced fish cakes with rice and bean salad
For a quick, healthy fish supper with a difference, try our jerk-spiced fish cakes served with a filling rice and...
Healthy makeover recipes
Smoked fish pie with butterbean mash
Our easy smoked fish pie is topped with butterbean mash for a nutritious, lower-carb take on the family favourite. You...
Budget recipes
Sausage and butter bean bake
This garlicky sausage and butter bean bake only needs one pan and can be on the table in just over...
Summer roast recipes
Ibérico pork loin with sherry roasted tomatoes, peppers and butter beans
Serve Iberico pork loin for two with roasted tomatoes, peppers and butter beans. A fuss-free twist on a classic pork...
Midweek meal recipes
Baked rainbow trout and butter bean gratin
This easy gratin recipe will be on the table in just 30 minutes. A simple butter bean and leek gratin...
Butter bean recipes
Crisp and sticky kale and butter beans with balsamic vinegar
This hearty, textured winter side dish combines sticky balsamic kale with fluffy butter beans. It would work well as part...
Winter soup recipes
One-pan tomato fish chowder
This flavoursome, gluten-free tomato-based chowder recipe by Donal Skehan uses soffrito as a starting point. Soffritto (known as mirepoix in...
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