Recipes with beans, chickpeas and lentils

Check whether the ingredient list calls for dry, cooked or canned legumes. Those amounts and cooking times are not equivalent. Canned beans are useful for quick meals, while lentils can cook directly in many soups and sauces. Save a partly used can for another recipe only after transferring and refrigerating it promptly.

Indian

Chana saag

47 min · Serves 2

American

Black bean burgers

53 min · Serves 2

British-inspired

Lentil shepherds pie

1 hr 50 min · Serves 2

Middle Eastern-inspired

Hummus

25 min · Serves 6

Indian-inspired

Chana dal

1 hr 20 min · Serves 2

Mexican-inspired

Black bean soup

50 min · Serves 2

American

Lentil sloppy joes

51 min · Serves 2

West African-inspired

Chickpea peanut stew

45 min · Serves 2

Mexican-inspired

Refried black beans

25 min · Serves 2

Indian

Dal tadka

45 min · Serves 2

Mediterranean-inspired

Pearl couscous with white beans

33 min · Serves 2

Mexican-inspired

Breakfast bean burritos

40 min · Serves 2

Indian-inspired

Chickpea potato curry

45 min · Serves 2

American

Kidney bean salad

35 min · Serves 2

South Indian

Sambar

1 hr · Serves 2

Mexican-inspired

Pineapple salsa

30 min · Serves 2