Home

Recipes

Recipes with tinned beans

Recipes with tinned beans

Got a tin of beans? Then you’ve got a meal in the making. This collection has all sorts of ideas for canned haricots, cannellini, butter, kidney, borlotti and mixed beans in it – and you might be surprised at what you can create, and it’s not just stews and casseroles.

Most of these recipes use at least one if not two large tins of beans.

Showing 1-16 of 49 recipes

Save recipe

November seasonal recipes

Roasted cauliflower, white bean, hazelnut and pomegranate salad

While the cauliflower roasts for this easy vegan salad, you just need to mix the creamy beans and pomegranate seeds with a simple dressing.

Dairy-free Gluten-free Vegan

Easy

Save recipe

30-minute meal recipes

Brothy beans with pumpkin

Brothy beans are comfort in a bowl. This simple dinner showcases the sweet warmth of pumpkin, pairing it with creamy white beans.

Dairy-free Gluten-free Vegan Vegetarian

Easy

Save recipe

Rice recipes

Panissa (Piedmontese rice and beans)

Panissa is a robust rice, salami and bean dish from Italy's Piedmont region. It's cooked like a risotto but with a firmer, thicker texture.

Gluten-free

Easy

Save recipe

Recipes with tinned beans

Butter bean cacio e pepe

Cacio e pepe is one of those classic pasta dishes that combines just a couple of ingredients but results in a meal that's so much greater than the sum of its parts. Here, we've added creamy butter beans for extra fibre and goodness.

Vegetarian

Easy

Save recipe

Chilli recipes

Leftover beef and bean chilli

Using leftover slow cooked brisket in this chilli fast-tracks the flavour, which is then amped up with chipotle and cumin.

Easy

Save recipe

Casserole recipes

Chicken sausage casserole

A deeply satisfying one-pot, this chicken sausage casserole combines light chicken sausages, chorizo and creamy beans in a rich sauce.

Dairy-free Gluten-free

Easy

Save recipe

Easy vegan recipes

Prebranac (caramelised-onion baked beans)

Georgina Hayden's prebranac recipe - slow-cooked butter beans with caramelised onions - takes homemade baked beans to the next level.

Dairy-free Vegan

Easy

Save recipe

Clam recipes

Mussels and clams with beans and sobrasada

For dinner with a difference, try this impressive mussels recipe. Simmer mussels and clams with sherry, white beans and sobrasada sausage.

Dairy-free

Easy

Save recipe

Delicious recipes for one person

Scotch egg toast

The pub classic is reworked with a healthy twist in our scotch egg toast recipe. Pile eggs, butter beans and chicken onto wholegrain toast.

Dairy-free

Easy

Save recipe

Chilli recipes

Smoky vegan chilli

Serve up a smoky vegan chilli with our easy recipe. This plant-based chilli is packed with aubergine and black beans plus a hint of chipotle.

Dairy-free Gluten-free Vegan

Easy

Save recipe

Slow cook recipes

Beef cheek and bean ragù

Perfect with pasta or crusty bread, this rich beef cheek and cannellini bean ragu can be cooked in the oven or simmer in the slow cooker.

Dairy-free Gluten-free

Easy

Save recipe

Brunch recipes

Easy huevos rancheros

When it comes to breakfast, huevos rancheros is the full Mexican and a weekend-treat that deserves to become your classic – plus it comes in at just £2.50 a portion.