Broiled Fava Beans With Dill and Garlic Salt

Make delicious springtime fava beans simpler by broiling them in their pods, then tossing them with a seasoning salt for a peel-and-eat snack.

Quick-Marinated White Bean Salad and Feta Lettuce Cups

A bean salad doesn't have to be boring. The creamy white cannellini beans in this easy salad absorb the bright flavor of a vinaigrette in just a few minutes. Paired with briny olives, fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, and feta cheese, and served in lettuce cups, they make a quick and substantial dinner.

Fava Bean Tartine With Goat Cheese and Marcona Almonds

Blanched and peeled fava beans that are roughly chopped and served on top of a goat cheese tartine with Marcona almonds and a few sprigs of chervil: This is the kind of toast you eat all by yourself while hiding in the kitchen so that nobody can steal a bite.

"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.

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.

Stir Fried Fava Beans with Szechuan Peppercorns

If you like fava beans, then you will very much enjoy this Stir Fried Fava Beans with Szechuan Peppercorns dish. Use frozen or fresh fava beans for the dish!

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.

Easy Fava Bean and Carrot Salad With Ricotta

This quick and easy salad takes some of spring's best produce—bright green fava beans and tender young carrots—and does just the right thing to them, which is very little. With a simple vinaigrette, some thinly sliced shallots, and a generous serving of fresh ricotta cheese to add richness, it's all they need to taste their best.

Szechuan Beans Recipe | Cook the Book

This recipe for quick-pickled Szechuan Beans from Sherri Brooks Vinton's Put 'em Up! takes the green bean's snappy nature and pairs it with the numbing heat of Szechuan peppercorns for a jar of beans that won't last long in the fridge. They're infused with a perfect balance of the five primary taste sensations. The sweetness comes from the sugar; the acidity from cider vinegar; the salt by way of soy sauce; a slight vegetal bitterness from the barely blanched beans; and heat from the Szechuan pe...

Pickled Spring Peas

These pickled peas are wonderful because they lose none of their pea essence in the pickling process. Instead, they just gain a vivid tartness. I've used them in a quick pasta dish and have a few left that I want to use to garnish my next batch of asparagus soup (two spring vegetables that go so well together).