Easy Canned Butter Beans

This recipe for Easy Canned Butter Beans is a creamy and comforting main or side dish!

These beans. Are. EVERYTHING.

Are you looking for vegan camping food? BOOM. Side dish for a backyard barbecue? BOOM. Comfort food on a cold, rainy day? BOOM. A healthy, high protein meatless option? BOOM BOOM BOOM!

I had a dish similar to this at a New Year’s Eve dinner at a local restaurant and have been perfecting it at home ever since. Can you believe in a five course dinner with a talented chef my favorite thing of all was butter beans?! Well technically my favorite was probably the corn ice cream with spicy popcorn, but by then I was so full that I could hardly get a bite past my mouth.

This recipe is super easy. A tiny bit of chopping and a little bit of simmering and you’re done. The vegetable broth cooks down with the beans to give it a nice creamy texture that I keep craving again and again!

I like to serve these beans the same way I received them at the restaurant – with a few toasted flatbread points and a spicy arugula salad.

You could definitely make this recipe with cooked dried beans, but I love the convenience of canned beans. I also have yet to perfect my dried bean cooking skills, so the flavor and texture of canned always seems better to me.

I legitimately might eat this, alternated with burrata with fresh cherry tomatoes, for the rest of the summer. Life has just never tasted this good!

These easy canned butter beans can be customized! Here are a few ideas to get you started:

• Use finely chopped shallots in place of the garlic
• Add a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes with the garlic
• Use 3 cups of vegetable broth to make a simple butter bean soup
• Sauté other veggies with the onions such as celery or zucchini
• Spread the beans on sourdough toast and top with arugula salad for an on-the-go lunch option

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Easy Canned Butter Beans

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

25 mins

Total Time

30 mins

 

An easy recipe using canned butter beans, veggies, and broth.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: canned butter beans, easy butter beans

Servings: 2

Calories: 251 kcal

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 medium yellow onion diced
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 15 ounces canned large butter beans rinsed and drained
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• Coarse kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
• Paprika

Instructions

1. In a medium pot, heat olive oil over medium heat.
2. Add the onion and cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until softened.
3. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 15 seconds.
4. Add the beans, vegetable broth, thyme, salt, and pepper, stir, and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to a simmer and let cook, stirring occasionally, until the liquid has reduced and the beans are hot, 15-20 minutes.
5. Serve warm, sprinkled with paprika.

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Nutrition Facts

Easy Canned Butter Beans

Amount Per Serving

Calories 251 Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 7g 11%

Saturated Fat 1g 5%

Sodium 1186mg 49%

Potassium 507mg 14%

Total Carbohydrates 36g 12%

Dietary Fiber 10g 40%

Sugars 2g

Protein 11g 22%

Vitamin A 5%

Vitamin C 3.6%

Calcium 5.6%

Iron 23.1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.