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Lima Beans, also referred to as Butter Beans, are scrumptious. This simple dish is consolation meals at its greatest and a incredible strategy to get pleasure from a hearty meal.
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For those who love this hearty dish, additionally, you will love this scrumptious Pork Roast and White Beans. It’s certainly one of our hottest crock pot dishes. In fact each require cornbread!
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
We love simple recipes with numerous style and received’t hold you within the kitchen for hours. That is a type of recipes, and it’s budget-friendly too. This Butter Bean recipe is ideal on a chilly day and it reheats effectively too. This recipe will be made within the crock pot too!
ARE LIMA BEANS AND BUTTER BEANS THE SAME?
Sure, they’re the identical bean, however they’re typically picked at totally different phases of maturity. Additionally they go by totally different names relying on the area. Within the South, they’re recognized extra as Butter Beans. (source)
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Bag of enormous dried lima beans
- Ham hock with some meat nonetheless on the bone or 1 cup chopped ham of your alternative
- Onion, chopped
- Minced garlic
- Pepper
- Salt
- 2 – 4 cups rice, cooked based on package deal instructions relying on how many individuals you’re serving (See Tip Part)
SWAPS
You could possibly all the time use bacon because the meat supply and add different seasonings your loved ones likes. You may simply eat these as soup beans and never serve them over rice, that’s your choice.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
This dish may be very simple to make, the longest a part of the method is soaking the beans, which we do in a single day.
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COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Rinse and kind beans and soak them in a single day in a big pot of water. Subsequent morning, drain the water and rinse the beans.
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Step 2
Add six cups of contemporary water, the chopped onion, garlic, pepper, and ham or ham hock. Simmer beans with lid tilted on pot for about 3 hours till tender, then add salt. (I all the time salt dried beans after they’re performed. They take longer to prepare dinner when you salt them throughout the cooking course of.) If utilizing a ham hock, take away it from pot and take the ham from the bone and add again to the beans. Serve over rice.
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Step 3 – Crock Pot
These beans will be cooked within the crock pot as effectively. Prepare dinner on excessive for 4 hours or low for about seven hours till tender.
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⭐TIP
When making rice, 1 cup of raw rice, will make 2 cups cooked. So keep in mind that when making rice for this dish. If you need 2 cups of cooked rice for this dish, then you’ll solely must make 1 cup of rice.
RECIPE VARIATIONS – SOUTHERN BUTTER BEANS
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❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
You rinse them in chilly water.
Some folks like their beans actually cooked and others like them with much less mush. It’s actually as much as you to search out what you want greatest.
STORING AND REHEATING
We retailer these in an enormous pot within the fridge and reheat on the range. If we made them within the crock pot, we simply put them again on low till they’re heat.
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SERVING SIZE
This makes round 8 servings and you may all the time stretch this meal with the rice.
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Lima Beans with Ham over Rice
Lima Beans also referred to as Butter Beans are really easy to make and fantastic consolation meals. This hearty dish will be made within the crock pot too. We like it over rice!
- 1 1 pound bag of enormous dried lima beans
- 1 giant ham hock with some meat nonetheless on the bone or 1 cup chopped ham of your alternative
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 – 4 cups rice cooked based on package deal instructions relying on how many individuals you’re serving
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Rinse and kind beans, soak in a single day in a big pot of water. Subsequent morning, drain the water and rinse beans. Add six cups of contemporary water, the chopped onion, garlic, pepper, and ham or ham hock.
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Simmer beans with lid tilted on pot for about 3 hours till tender, then add salt. (I all the time salt dried beans after they’re performed. They take longer to prepare dinner when you salt them throughout the cooking course of.)
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If utilizing a ham hock, take away it from pot and take the ham from the bone and add again to the beans. Serve over rice. These beans will be cooked within the crock pot as effectively. Prepare dinner on excessive for 4 hours or low about seven hours till tender.
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