Greek Butter Bean Salad With Tomatoes, Dill, and Oregano

Inspired by gigantes plaki (Greek-style baked beans), this flavorful salad features butter beans enveloped in a vinegar-spiked tomato dressing, with dill, oregano, and a touch of cinnamon.

Bean Salad With Radicchio, Radish, Pickled Onions, and Marcona Almonds

What makes the difference between a great bean salad and a boring bowlful of beans? The answer is simple: Go for maximum contrast, both in texture and in flavor. Here, I add layers of crispness and crunch with almonds, radish, radicchio, fresh parsley, scallion, and quick-pickled onion.

Salmon Bean Salad

Poaching may not be the most popular of cooking methods for salmon, but it's incredibly versatile. Here, we flake the cooked fish into an easy, hearty salad with plump cranberry beans and peppery arugula.

Marinated Fava Beans

Fava beans are sweet, tender, and pleasantly starchy. When they're coated with a slick of olive oil, vinegar and garlic bits, the contrast between the sharp dressing and the mild greenness of the beans is really wonderful.

Ottolenghi's Green Bean Salad

A bewitching green bean salad adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi's "Jerusalem" cookbook. Tarragon, chervil, cumin, coriander and crispy garlic.

Green Bean Salad

A lovely green bean salad with a lemon dressing that presents nicely and is quick to make! The chopped tomato and onion is a great finish touch here.

Green Bean Salad With Pickled Peppers and Anchovy Dressing

Tender-crisp green beans tossed in a savory dressing flavored with anchovies and Worcestershire. Hot and tangy peperoncini, shallots, and pine nuts finish the salad.

Smoky Barbecue Beans

These barbecue beans are deeply spiced with paprika, cumin, and plenty of black pepper, and given added depth with dried red chiles. Chunks of smoked meat (sausage, leftover barbecue, or whatever else you have on hand) add a campfire fragrance to round them out.

"Dry-Fried" Green Beans With Romesco Sauce

This quick and easy green bean side dish comes together in just minutes with the help of your broiler and some Spanish romesco sauce.

Spicy Ful Medames (Fava Beans) With Olive Oil and Chile

Ful medames, stewed fava beans, is a staple dish all over the Levant. Some versions are mild mannered and comforting. This one, loaded with olive oil, lemon, garlic, cumin, and a kick of chile powder, is anything but. Serve it as a bean stew or mash up the beans and use it as a high octane dip.