Split Pea Puree with Shiitakes
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Category: Beans & Pulses
Beans & Pulses Recipes
Lentil-Pasta Terrine with Cumin and Prunes
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Classic Greek Bean Soup / Fasolada
Beans are a New World product but bean soup. fasolada in Greek, is Greece’s national dish! Greek herbs and great Greek olive oil will make this hearty soup even more delicious. Find them both on my online store here.
Black-Eyed Peas with Chard and Olives /Mavromatika me Elies kai Seskoula
Beans and greens are coupled in countless main-course vegetable dishes in the Greek kitchen. This black-eyed pea and chard medley is from the Peloponnese.
Giant Beans Baked with Honey and Herbs
The best Greek giant beans are from the north, especially from Prespes and Kastoria. When cooked, they are creamy without being mushy, and that’s the way gigantes -giant beans- should be. You can also substitute butter beans for this dish.
Yellow Split Pea Purée (Fava)
Fava, this simple puree of yellow split peas made velvety with a copious amount of great Greek olive oil, and tangy with a spritz of lemon, is one of the great meze dishes of Greek cuisine. It’s also one of the most versatile, since you can marry fava with almost anything. To find the fava […]
Giant Beans with Roasted Red Peppers, Olives, & Feta
Oh, giant beans, how do I love thou, let me count the ways! Here’s one, for sure. To find the giant beans, aka Greek gigantes, herbs, olives and olive oil in this comforting recipe, go to my online store here.