Recipes with both beans and meat...

[ursusarctos]

...that aren't for chili or pea soup Anybody want to share? I can cook vegetarian dishes with beans and meat-containing dishes without beans but am sort of at a loss combining beans and meat.

[Plaid Leopard]

I don't have the recipes on hand but they would be easy enough to find:

couscous with meat and chickpeas

minestrone with beef and beans

chickpeas and chorizo

lamb and bean stew with rosemary

cassoulet - beans, sausage and/or duck with white beans

black beans and ground beef served with rice, sour cream etc

[lilylumos]

I make black beans and sausage. Super easy, soak the black beans over night, then rinse and add a can or two of diced tomatoes (or fresh) and cook for about 8 hours in the crock pot. Then I brown up some sausage - you can cook it in the crock pot too, but i like it crispy - and put that on top of a bowl of beans and brown rice! Yum.

[amandaleigh37]

Pasta Fagioli - this recipe is delicious, and it's in the crock pot too.

[Teenytoona]

From the very same website as above: Cowboy beans.

[Ruthla]

You can probably add some sauteed ground meat to any of your otherwise vegetarian bean recipes.

You can also cook beans as a side dish to serve alongside any meat meals- either in a pilaf with grains, or by themselves as another dish on the table.

[lynsage]

Burritos with beans and meat

Burgers or bratwursts with baked beans as a side

White beans, smoked sausage (like kielbasa) and apples in a casserole with a honey and molasses based sauce

Red beans and rice with fried or grilled chicken or ribs

[BetsyS]

Red beans and rice with andouille

Any sort of Mexican food--tacos, tamales, tostadas, enchiladas, gorditas, sopes, you name it.

Hummus as a side dish with kofta kabobs

Taco soup (sort of like chili, but soupier)

Cincinatti chili (sort of like chili, but not)

hoppin' john with some ham in it

[cristeen]

You can always sub half of the ground meat called for in a recipe with beans.

[nattybo]

black bean soup

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/d...ipe/index.html

Here is a version close to what I make. Insanely good. I could eat the whole pot by myself. My own recipe differs in that I use: 12 strips of thick bacon, one average sized onion, one big can (28 oz) of tomatoes 2 small cans (15.5 oz) of black beans, doubled the chili powder and ketchup, omitted the cilantro and lime (didn't have it when I made it the first time around and its fine without). I think I might use a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, but I am not sure. Its been a while since I made it. Hubby is not a fan (his mom never made anything like that and so he is not going to eat it ).

[Martha27]

I made beef stew the other day and just added black beans to it to draw it out a bit longer. It was good and more filling too
Also I have a recipe that we call rabbit stew that is just hamburger, stewed tomatos, onion, bacon, beans and anything else you have in the fridge. All cooked in a covered pan on the stove. I dont know why it has been called rabbit stew, its a passed down recipe, but its pretty good!

[ursusarctos]

Thanks ladies, these look great!