DRIED BEANS/LEGUMES/LENTILS (or canned) - Your favorite recipes / applications?

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Spring (April–June) 2026 COTM and Cooking-From JOSE ANDRES

PIYAZ / GIGANTES BEAN STEW I love gigantes beans / butter beans and am always in search of a new way to eat them. I am puzzled as to why the recipe has you cook the beans with onion and potato that are then discarded — I could see the onion possibly flavoring the beans, but what is the potato doing? Adding starch? The beans have plenty of starch for me, so I skipped it. I soaked the beans overnight and then cooked them in the pressure cooker as usual. Gigantes always take much longer than I ex…