Beans of the Americas

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North America

Canada

Montréal

Fèves au lard (white beans) (🔗1 🔗2)
Soupe aux gourganes (fava) (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)

Newfoundland

Pea soup with dough boys (🔗1)

Nova Scotia

Hodge Podge (string beans, peas) (🔗1)

United States

(CBSS) Bernard Clayton: The Complete Book of Soups and Stews
(NFVC) Hagler & Bates: The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (check)
Bean pie (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)
Seven-Bean Soup (mixed beans, ham hocks) (CBSS, 🔗1)

New England

(CGB) John Withee: Growing and Cooking Beans
Baked beans

Mid-Atlantic

U.S. Senate Bean Soup (white beans, ham bone) (CBSS, 🔗1)

Shaker Bean Chowder (white beans, salt pork/ham bone, tomatoes) (CBSS, 🔗1)
Sunday Soup (Amish) (white beans, cream) (CBSS, 🔗1)

Midwest

Dakota and Minnesota Indigenous territories

(SCIK) Sherman: The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
(EOL) Erdrich: Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest
All Sisters Chili (EOL)
Buffalo Bird Woman's Four Sisters Dish (runner beans, squash, parched corn, sunflower seeds) (EOL)
Great Northern Vegetarian Cassoulet (EOL)
Maple Baked Cranberry Beans (EOL)
Blokétu Watȟótȟo Ičhičahiya (squash, corn, beans, trout) (SCIK)
Ȟaņté apé úņ omniča lolóbyapi (cedar-braised beans) (SCIK)
Omniča Aǧúyapi Saksáka (crispy bean cakes) (SCIK)
Wagmíza na omniča na wagmú patȟáņpi (three sisters mash) (SCIK)
Hoǧáņ ašótkaziyapi na omniča ská lyúltȟuņ (whitefish and white bean spread) (SCIK)
Čhaņnákpa na bló skúya na omniča waháņpi (mushroom, sweet potato, bean soup) (SCIK)

Omniča ská na wagmú waháņpi (white beans and squash soup) (SCIK)
Omniča sápa na hupĥéstola hutkĥáņ waháņpi (black bean and yucca soup) (SCIK)
Thiņpsila aǧúyapi sáka na omniča lolóbyapi (timpsula cakes with beans) (SCIK)
Ȟaņté apé úņ omniča lolóbyapi haņpí (cedar bean stock) (SCIK)

American Southeast

(BFP) Gutierrez: Beans and Field Peas
(NDSM) Dupree: Nathalie Dupree's Southern Memories
Boiled peanuts (NDSM, 🔗1)
Peanut nibbles (NDSM)
Butter peas or butter beans (NDSM, Sean Brock: South, 🔗1 🔗2)
Butter bean and corn salad (NDSM, 🔗1)
Fresh crowder peas with snaps / field peas and snap beans (NDSM, 🔗1)
Summer vegetable soup (fresh lima beans) (NDSM)
Black-eyed pea and corn salad (NDSM, 🔗1)
Black-eyed peas with vinaigrette (NDSM, 🔗1)
Purple cape beans and grilled greens (Sean Brock: South)

Louisiana

New Orleans Red beans and rice (🔗1 🔗2)

Mississippi

Mississippi caviar (black-eyed peas) (NDSM, 🔗1)

South Carolina

Sea Islands / Gullah Geechee

(BNN) Raiford: Bress 'n' Nyam
(SARK) Robinson: Sallie Ann Robinson's Kitchen
Reezy-Peezy (Sea Island red peas) (BNN, 🔗1)
Red-peas-and-rice fritters (Sea island red peas) (BNN)
Cowpea salad (BNN, 🔗1)
Stew beef with lima beans (SARK)
Oxtail with green lima beans (SARK)
Tomato, corn, green lima, and okra soup (SARK)
Steamed fresh lima beans and corn (SARK)
Black-eyed peas with okra (SARK)
Green lima beans with ham hocks (SARK)

American Southwest

Pozole (Sando: The Rancho Gordo Pozole Book)
Chili (🔗1 🔗2)

Arizona

Tohono O'odham Nation

Sto-toah bahf (white tepary beans) (🔗1)
Pozole (🔗1)

Texas

Texan Lentil Soup (lentils, beef, spaghetti) (CBSS, 🔗1)

Hawaii

(CRH) Simeon: Cook Real Hawai'i
Dry mein (mung bean sprouts) (CRH, 🔗1)
Somen salad (mung bean sprouts) (CRH, 🔗1)
Tofu watercress (CRH, 🔗1)
Chicken hekka (fried tofu/bean thread noodles) (CRH, 🔗1)

Lahaina

Fat chow fun (mung bean sprouts) (CRH, 🔗1)

Latin America

(GCL) Presilla: Gran Cocina Latina

Central America

Belize

Garnaches (🔗1 🔗2)

Rice and beans (red beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)

Costa Rica

Gallo pinto (GCL, 🔗1 🔗2

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Chifrijo (🔗1)
Cubases arreglados (fresh runner beans) (🔗1)
Gallitos surtidos (GCL, 🔗1)

El Salvador

Sopa salvadoreña de frijoles de seda con costillas (GCL, 🔗1)
Frijoles colorados (red beans) (FTSB, 🔗1)
Frijoles guisados (FTSB, 🔗1)
Frijoles colorados con marrano (FTSB, 🔗1)
Pupusas (FTSB, 🔗1)

Guatemala

(AGK) Amalia Moreno-Damgaard: Amalia’s Guatemalan Kitchen
(FTSB) Copeland Marks: False Tongues and Sunday Bread: A Guatemalan and Mayan Cookbook
Frijoles volteados (refried) (GCL, FTSB, AGK, 🔗1)

Habas en zapatadas (boiled dry fava, squeezed from shell to eat) (FTSB)
Arroz y frijoles colorados (with coconut milk) (FTSB, 🔗1)
Rellenitos de plátanos (FTSB, AGK, 🔗1)

Ticucos (black bean tamales) (AGK, 🔗1)
Frijoles chapines (black beans) (AGK, 🔗1)
Frijoles parados con pitos (black beans, pito buds) (AGK, 🔗1)
Frijoles parados con chipilín (AGK, 🔗1)
Frijoles colados con chile pimiento (AGK)
Sopa de frijoles con panitos (AGK)
Frijoles con chorizo y tocino (AGK, 🔗1)
Maleta de frijoles con arroz (AGK, 🔗1)
Caldo de frijoles (AGK, 🔗1)
Arroz negro con chile pimiento (AGK)
Frijoles blancos con espinazo (AGK, 🔗1)
Doblados de frijoles y queso (AGK, 🔗1)
Frijoles colorados con chorizo español (AGK, 🔗1)
Puré de habas con chicharrones (AGK)
Gallo pinto (AGK)
Guiso de pollo, lentejas y garbanzos (AGK, 🔗1)
Ensalada de frijoles (AGK, 🔗1)
Tostadas guatemaltecas (AGK, 🔗1)
Panes (AGK)

Antigua

Piloyes / Piloyada antigüeña (FTSB, AGK, 🔗1)
Frijoles negros parados (FTSB, 🔗1)
Sopa de frijoles negros (FTSB, 🔗1)

Garifuna

Arroz y frijoles colorados (with coconut milk) (AGK, FTSB, 🔗1)

Guatemala City

Habas volteados (FTSB)
Arroz negro (with black bean water) (FTSB)
Garbanzos en tomate (FTSB)
Sopa de garbanzos (FTSB, 🔗1)

Puerto Barrios

Frijoles con arroz (FTSB)

Joyabaj

Frijol blanco con marrano (FTSB, 🔗1)

Huehuetenango

Frijoles con carne (FTSB, 🔗1)

Jalapa

Sopa caldosa de frijol blanco (FTSB)

Honduras

Anafres

Panama

Arroz con Guandú y Coco (🔗1)

Mexico

Mexican Beans Manifesto
The Freedom of Seeds
(AMC) Kennedy: The Art of Mexican Cooking
(ECM) Kennedy: The Essential Cuisines of Mexico
Frijoles hervidos / de la olla (GCL, 🔗1)
Frijoles refritos (MMCK, 🔗1)
Guasanas (🔗1)

Baja California

(BCC) Hussong and Porter: The Baja California Cookbook
Norteño tacos (BCC)
Octopus and domingo rojo beans (BCC)

Central Mexico

Tlacoyos (also Puebla and Hidalgo) (AMC, 🔗1)
Habas Guisadas con Huevos (AMC, 🔗1)
Ensaladas de Habas (AMC, 🔗1)
Lentejas con Piña y Plátano (ECM, 🔗1)
Lentejas guisadas (ECM, 🔗1)
Molletes (ECM, 🔗1)

Chiapas

Tamalas Juacanes (🔗1)

Chihuahua

Frijoles Guisados (AMC)

Colima

Chiles en Escabeche Colimenses (canarios or flor de mayo) (ECM)

Hidalgo

Caldo de Habas (ECM)

Mexico City

(MMCK) Camara: My Mexico City Kitchen
Frijoles aguados (MMCK, 🔗1)
Frijoles refritos en manteca (MMCK, 🔗1)
Sopes playeros (MMCK, 🔗1)
Huevos pochados en sopa de frijoles (MMCK, 🔗1)
Huevos tirados (MMCK, 🔗1)
Molletes con chorizo (MMCK, 🔗1)
Tortitas de plátano macho con frijoles (MMCK, 🔗1 🔗2)
Cogollos asados y frijoles rojos (small red beans, grilled little gem lettuce) (MMCK, 🔗1)

Michoacan

Sopa tarasca
Lentejas en Adobo (AMC, 🔗1)
Sopa Tarasca (pink or pinto beans) (ECM, 🔗1)

Nueva León

Dulce de frijoles (1)
Tamales de Frijol Norteños (ECM, 🔗1)
Frijoles a la Charra (Frijoles Borrachos) (ECM, 🔗1)

Oaxaca

(SOMH) Trilling: Seasons of my Heart
Enfrijoladas (AMC, SOMH, 🔗1)
Molotes Oaxaqueños (AMC, 🔗1)
Tamales de Frijol (AMC, 🔗1)
Arroz con Caldo de Frijol (AMC, 🔗1)
Frijoles negros con chochoyotes (AMC, SOMH, 🔗1)
Tlayudas con Frijoles (SOMH, Gluck and Morales: The Native Mexican Kitchen, 🔗1)
Sopa de habas (SOMH, 🔗1)
Sopa de Garbanzo (SOMH)
Frijoles Blancos con Camarón Seco (SOMH, 🔗1)
Tetelas de Juxtlahuaca (SOMH, 🔗1)
Molito de Frijol Colorado (SOMH)
Tamales de Frijol (SOMH, 🔗1)
Frijoles Negros de Olla (SOMH)
Tamales de Calabaza y Frijoles (squash and bean tamales) (SOMH)
Sopa de Lentejas (Savory lentil soup with pineapple and plantains) (SOMH, 🔗1)

Guisado de Garbanzo Istmeño (uses garbanza vs garbanzo) (SOMH)
Frijoles Charros (with meat) (SOMH, Gluck and Morales: The Native Mexican Kitchen, 🔗1)
Tortillas Embarradas (tortillas smeared with bean chile paste) (SOMH)

Puebla

Ayocotes Refritos (GCL)
Pintos (black beans) (AMC)
Sopa de Habas (fava) (AMC, 🔗1)
Bocoles de Frijol (black beans (ECM, 🔗1)

Querétaro

Sopa de Lentejas Estilo Qurétaro (ECM, 🔗1)

Sonora

Frijoles Maneados Sonorenses (ECM, 🔗1)

Burritos (ECM, 🔗1)

Veracruz

Frijoles refritos veracruzanos (GCL)
Bombas con frijoles (MMCK, 🔗1)
Caldo de frijoles negros (GCL)
Huevos tirados (1)

Yucatán

Frijoles colados Yucatecos (black beans) (GCL, AMC, ECM, 🔗1)
Frijoles refritos (1)
Huevos motuleños (1)
Yucatan fried beans (1)
Polkanes (lima) (AMC, 🔗1)
Panuchos (black beans) (ECM, AMC, 🔗1)
Ibis Escabechados (pickled lima beans) (ECM)
Garnachas Yucatecas (black) (ECM, 🔗1)
Frijoles a la Huacha (black) (ECM)
Huevos Motuleños (black) (ECM, 🔗1)

Zacatecas

Frijoles zacatecanos (🔗1)

Nicaragua

(NC) Trudy Espinoza-Abrams: Nicaraguan Cooking (check)
Gallo pinto (red beans)
Sopa de frijoles (red beans) (FTSB)

Caribbean

Rasta pasta

Black bean cakes

Cuba

Arros con maiz, garbanzos, habichuelas, y chorizo (GCL, 🔗1)
Sopa de frijoles negros habanera (GCL, 🔗1)
Moros y cristianos / Congri (GCL, 🔗1)

Dominican Republic

Sancocho de habichuelas

Habicheula con dulce (🔗1)

Haiti

Polenta, Beans, and Coconut

Jamaica

Garifuna rice and beans with coconut milk (GCL, 🔗1)

Puerto Rico

Arroz con gandules (pigeon peas) (GCL, 🔗1)

Habichuelas coloradas guisadas (GCL, 🔗1)

Trinidad & Tobago

Doubles (chickpeas) (🔗1)

Stew pigeon peas (🔗1)

South America

Argentina

(AC) Brooks: Argentina Cooks!
Garbanzos al horno (baked chickpeas) (AC, 🔗1)
Chorizos con lentejas (AC, 🔗1)
Puré de garbanzos (AC, 🔗1)
Locro (🔗1)

Bolivia

Lawa de choclo y habas (GCL, 🔗1)

Brazil

(BBRE) Ana Luiza Trajano: Basics: Brazilian Recipes Encyclopaedia
(BCJ) Hamilton: Brazil: A Culinary Journey
(TB) Harris: Tasting Brazil: Regional Recipes and Reminiscences
Feijão Fradinho Cozido (black-eyed peas) (GCL)
Feijoada (GCL, BBRE, TB, 🔗1)
Caldo de feijão (bean broth) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Feijão caseiro (BBRE, 🔗1)
Feijão con pequi (BBRE, 🔗1)
Feijão-preto con leite de coco (BBRE, 🔗1)

Feijoada de frutos de mar (coastal, white/flageolet beans) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Salada de feijão-fradinho (black-eyed pea salad) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Salada de feijão-manteiguinha (manteiguinha beans) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Sopa de ervilha (pea soup) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Sopa de feijão com macarrão (BBRE, 🔗1)
Sopa de feijão (black/pink/black-eyed pea) (TB, 🔗1)

Northeast Brazil

Favada nordestina (lima bean stew) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Feijão com leite de coco (black beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)

Bahia

Arrumadinho Baiano (black-eyed pea salad (GCL, 🔗1)
Acarajé (GCL, TB, BCJ, BBRE, 🔗1)
Feijoada Baiana (BCJ, 🔗1)
Abará (dried shrimp, peeled pureed black-eyed peas steamed in banana leaves) (TB, BBRE, 🔗1)

Ceará

Baião de dois (cowpeas) (BBRE, 🔗1)

Rubacão (cowpeas) (BBRE, 🔗1)

Minas Gerais

Tutu à Mineira (brown/mulantinho or black beans) (BBRE, BCJ, TB, 🔗1)
Feijão Tropeiro (black beans) (BBRE, BCJ, 🔗1)

Pará

Salada de feijão manteiga (lima beans, vegetables) (BCJ, 🔗1)

Pernambuco

Arrumadinho (black-eyed peas, beef jerky) (BBRE, 🔗1)
Feijoada Pernambuco (BBRE)
Feijão de côco (black-eyed peas, coconut milk) (BCJ, 🔗1)

São Paolo

Virado à Paulista (BBRE, 🔗1)
Virado de feijão (black beans) (TB, 🔗1)

Chile

(3GCC) Umaña-Murray: Three Generations of Chilean Cuisine
(TCK) Hernandez & Smith: The Chilean Kitchen
(FCC) Benelli: Food and Cooking of Chile
(TCK2) Waerebeek-Gonzalez: The Chilean Kitchen
Porotos Granados con Mazamorra (GCL, 3GCC, TCK2, 🔗1)
Porotos Granados (GCL, TCK, FCC, 🔗1)

Porotos con Mazamorra (fresh white beans) (3GCC, 🔗1)
Porotos con pimentón al horno (white beans, pumpkin, red peppers) (TCK2, 🔗1)
Porotos de Invierno (dry white beans) (3GCC, 🔗1)
Porotos con Riendas (winter bean stew with pasta) (TCK, TCK2, 🔗1)
Porotos pelados (peeled beans with paprika oil) (TCK2, 🔗1)
Ensalada de porotos, cebollin y aceitunas (bean salad, scallions, olives) (TCK2)
Garbanzos con Longaniza (3GCC, 🔗1)
Guiso de garbanzos con acelga (chickpeas. swiss chard) (TCK2, 🔗1)
Garbanzos al horno (chickpea flour and bacon pie) (TCK2, 🔗1)
Crema de Garbanzos (creamy chickpea soup) (TCK, 🔗1)
Lentejas con Chorizo (3GCC, 🔗1)
Lentejas con arroz y chorizo (TCK2, 🔗1)
Ensalada de porotos con cebolla (bean and onion salad) (TCK, 3GCC 🔗1)
Ensalada del Nuevo Mundo (fresh ripe beans) (3GCC)
Pure de Porotos Picantes (spicy bean purée) (3GCC, 🔗1)

Araucanía

Ensalada de lentejas con porotos verdes y piñones (lentils, green beans, pine nuts) (FCC)
Puré de porotos gratinados al merquén (white beans, cream, cheese) (FCC, 🔗1)

Colombia

Cargamanto Beans (1)
Frisoles antioqueños (🔗1)

Red beans from Baranquilla (🔗1)

Ecuador

Chochos hervidos (lupini beans) (GCL, 🔗1)
Chochos con tostado (GCL, 🔗1)
Llapingachos con ají de maní (patties with peanut sauce) (GCL, 🔗1)

Paraguay

Poroto Quesú (Caldo de poroto con queso) (🔗1)

Peru

(PTC) Gastón Acurio: Peru: The Cookbook (check)
Habas Hervidas al Estilo Andino (boiled fresh fava beans) (GCL)
Tacu tacu (GCL) (APC, 🔗1)

Ensalada de pallares (lima bean salad) (APC, 🔗1)
Frijol guisado (canary beans) (APC, 🔗1)

Puré de pallares (lima beans) (APC, 🔗1)
Frejol colado (🔗1)

Arequipa

Ocopa arequipeña (potatoes in pepper-peanut sauce) (GCL, 🔗1)
Solterito Arequipeño (fresh fava salad/relish) (GCL, 🔗1)

La Libertad

Pepián de garbanzos (GCL, 🔗1)

Lima

Puré de pallar (lima bean puree) (GCL, 🔗1)
Causa de pallares (large lima bean puree) (GCL, 🔗1)
Tamal verde (chickpea tamale, 🔗1) (APC)

Piura

Menestra de frijoles canarios (🔗1)

Trujillo

Espesado de garbanzos (chickpea puree) (Marks: The Exotic Kitchens of Peru)

Venezuela

Arepas (with black bean filling) (🔗1 🔗2)
Caraotas negras (🔗1)
Pabellon criollo (pulled beef, black beans, rice, plantains, cheese) (🔗1)
Palo a pique (GCL, 🔗1)
Puré de caraotas negras mantuano (GCL)

Sopa de lentejas (🔗1)