Purple beans get their eggplant color from plant pigments called anthocyanins, but as the beans cook, the pigment disappears and they turn green. In terms of their flavor, purple beans tend to be a ...

Eating produce raw has become somewhat in vogue lately, but green beans are one ingredient you'll want to think twice about ...

Haricots vert (ARE-ree-coh VAIR) means simply “green beans” in French. These small, slender, early-season vegetables are a type of snap bean favored in France. They are more difficult to grow and thus ...

In French, the word for "bean" is haricot, and the word for "green" is vert. So if you've wondered whether haricots verts (Ah-ree-koh VERH) is just a gourmet way of saying "green beans," the answer is ...

1-2 lbs. Haricot Verts or Green Beans ¼ cup Pancetta or Bacon, coarse chop ¼ cup sliced Almonds, lightly toasted ¼ cup Olive oil Salt and Pepper for seasoning Before you start blistering the Haricot ...

Skulking around the stalls of my farmers market the other day, these Cranberry Beans immediately caught my eye. Haricots Écossés (pronounced air-ee-koe ay-koe-say) literally translates to Beans ...

I use canned beans, rinsed of their brine, for this quick weekday dinner, but you could use home-cooked dried beans instead if you are cooking at a more leisurely pace. Using a heavy knife, cut 2 bone ...

This dish showcases two lovely ingredients: Irish lamb and dark, leafy kale. Drain the soaked beans and place in a saucepan. Cover with cold water, place on a high heat and bring to the boil, then ...

British-grown beans on toast could soon be on breakfast menus up and down the country after a crop of haricot beans was successfully harvested in the UK for the first time. Farmers had previously been ...

There is a swift and a slow way to make this – both just as satisfying. To make it from scratch you must remove the brown meat from the crab’s carapace, and the white from the claws, legs and inner ...