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.

The Best Barbecue Beans

Using dried beans pays in this recipe, which produces some of the best barbecue beans you'll ever have—the sauce packs a deep and complex barbecue flavor with tender, creamy beans.

Spicy Dilly Beans

A bit of heat from red chili flakes and plenty of garlic flavor come through with these crunchy, dill-scented green beans.

Barbecue Beans Recipe | Grilling

Each week Joshua Bousel drops by with a recipe for you to grill over the weekend. Fire it up, Joshua! I'm going out on a limb here, because this is technically not barbecue, or grilling. But there are few other...

Slow-Cooked Boston Baked Beans

Our Boston baked beans recipe uses beans, molasses, and salt pork with a long, slow cook in a dry oven to tenderize the beans and form a dark crust for the best flavor.

Easy Spicy Baked Beans

[Photograph: Bill Milne Editor's note: On Thursdays, Andrea Lynn, associate editor of Chile Pepper Magazine drops by with Serious Heat. I grew up loving canned baked beans, which my younger siblings affectionately referred to as "sweet beans." Due to whatever...

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...

Mark Bittman's Green Beans with Crisp Shallots

Leave it to Mark Bittman to show us how to make the best version of this side standard, Green Beans with Crisp Shallots. Bittman's go to method for beans with a little bit of bite involves briefly boiling the green beans, shocking them in ice water, and finishing them with a quick trip to the sauté pan. Tossed with crispy sweet butter and olive oil fried shallots, and almonds, if you'd like, this is the recipe that'll have your green beans moving out of blah territory and into much tastier place...

"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.

Pickled Chinese Long Beans

Chinese long beans make a fun, curly pickle that is as tasty as it is beautiful. Try these on a relish plate or tucked into an untraditional Nicoise salad.