In these three recipes, the types of beans or lentil are mostly interchangeable. You can use black beans, white beans or pinto beans. You can also substitute lentils or add beans for the lentil soup.

Try lentils, black beans, garbanzo beans, pinto beans, cannelini, kidney beans, black-eyed peas, just to name a few! These selected recipes are delicious and nutritious while being adaptable to ...

Brown lentils work fine in this recipe, but we prefer French green lentils; they hold their shape better. Feel free to cook dried beans especially for this recipe, but any leftover or canned beans ...

The recipes here call for a mixture of canned and dried: White Bean Toast, Lima Bean Soup, Lentil Loaf, and Black Bean Brownies. For interchangeability, remember 1 pound of dry edible beans yields ...

Imagine this: You open the pantry looking for a can of beans, but all you find is a bag of red lentils. It's not what the recipe calls for, but it'll work in a pinch, right? That's true ...

and oval-shaped whereas lentils are relatively smaller, and disc-shaped. When bought dry, beans are recommended to soak before using them in a recipe (although, that's technically not needed).

This satisfying soup is thickened with cannellini beans ... recipe from Gwyneth Paltrow. Inspired by Moroccan harira, this fragrant vegetarian soup — packed with canned chickpeas and lentils ...

"In this recipe, we’re looking at about 1 pound of pinto beans paired with six slices of thick-cut bacon. The ratio of beans, onion and carrot to bacon is minimal, and the fat from the bacon can ...