Beans are ingredients used in many recipes of Italian cuisine, in particular the peasant one. Let's find out how to choose the right variety and our best recipes with borlotti beans, cannellini beans or whites
To prepare excellent recipes with beans it is good to correctly choose the type to use: borlotti or cannellini? And as for the choice between fresh beans, dry or in box? Sometimes there is not enough time to shell the pods of fresh beans, or you forgot to soak dry ones. The most convenient and fastest choice therefore falls on the canned ones, ready-made.
In our gallery we have collected some of our recipes with the best beans: appetizers, soups, first is seconds dishes with beans. In addition, below we explain how to choose at best some of the most popular and loved varieties in Italy, to bring them to your kitchen with lots of taste!
Recipes with borlotti beans
Borlotti beans are the most cultivated in our country and are particularly loved for the their ability to absorb flavors. For this reason, borlotti beans are perfect for preparing soups, i minestrone, but above all the pasta and beans. Often beans are used to replace meat, thanks to their protein intake, but borlotti beans are also perfect to accompany it!
Recipes with cannellini beans
The cannellini beans, thanks to them intense flavor, are perfect in the simplest recipes, accompanied by delicate seasonings, or to be combined with fish. Salads, soups and soups are ideal! And how can we forget the Tuscan specialty of bird beans?
Recipes with white beans
White beans are the most common ones in the Southern Italy: are especially suitable for salads, for the preparations stewed or to be combined with tomato.
Recipes with beans: canned or dried?
Dried beans or canned beans better? Often it happens that you do not have enough time to cook dried legumes, which require longer preparation, and you opt for those precooked. If you prepare canned bean recipes, it's important eliminate the government water: canned beans, in fact, may contain additives, salt or sugar, so it is good rinse under running water before using them.
Choose your favorite bean recipe in the gallery above: starting with tasty first courses with beans, up to soups and second courses in combination with meat or fish!
