This is a collection of recipes for cooking with beans of every flavour, colour and variety: adzuki beans, butter beans, borlottie beans, mung beans, soya beans, chick peas, lentils, kidney beans and many more. Whether baked or casseroled, made into soups and rissoles, served with pasta or pancakes or simply sauteed with vegetables, the versatile bean is healthy, economical and delicious.