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A type of bean grown in India that is very similar to the mung bean and is a common ingredient for Indian cooking.

A variety of legume that is small and oval-shaped, pale pink in color, and grown throughout the world.

A popular type of small bean with a cream-colored flesh and black skin that has a slightly sweet flavor and a mealy texture.

A small, oval bean, reddish-brown to maroon in color, and native to China. It is usually sold in a dried form, but can also be purchased as a paste or flour.

Mildly seasoned and filled with a variety of beans and vegetables, this type of soup is a combination of many ingredients often found in Mexican or southwestern U.S.

A small, disk-shaped legume that has a firm texture and a nutty taste. Dried green lentils do not require presoaking like many dried beans and they tend to cook faster.

Also known as a chickpea, a garbanzo bean is a round, tan-colored legume with a slightly nutty flavor.

A chocolate powder produced from cocoa beans that have been roasted, husked, and processed to remove the fat, wihch is the cocoa butter contained in the bean.

A savory mixture of chicken, dumplings and vegetables combined into a sauce-like soup. With an appearance and taste similar to the filling of a traditional pot pie, Chicken Dumpling Soup is made with chunks of cooked chicken, spaetzle dumplings, green beans, peas, carrots, celery, butter, and milk.

A product common in Asia and very popular in Japan that consists of fresh green soybeans picked while they are still young.

A term originally used to describe a dish from the southern U.S. with an assortment of cooked vegetables consisting primarily of corn kernels, beans (most often lima beans) and red or green peppers.

A fresh bean that grows in the sea in the form of a long, pencil thin, cylindrical green stem that may have spherical-shaped, spike-like buds on the ends.

A variety of flour that is most often used in East Indian cooking. Garbanzo beans, also known as chickpeas, are processed into a flour that is very similar to millet providing a rich sweet flavor to baked foods.

The edible leaf or paddle of the prickly pear cactus and other varieties of cactus. It is prepared by removing the thorns and eyes, after which it is served fresh, canned, cooked, steamed, or pickled.

A traditional Italian soup that filled with vegetables and pasta which are cooked in a hearty vegetable broth.

Flat, disk shaped dried beans, high in protein, that have a rich, somewhat sweet and peppery flavor when cooked.

A soup that is most often associated with the central and southern regions of Thailand. Made from the milk of coconuts, this soup may contain meat such as chicken or shellfish or as a subsitute, tofu may be added.

A type of condiment considered to be a pickled relish that is most often served as a dipping sauce, a sandwich spread, or a topping for various grilled and roasted meats, such as hamburgers, wieners, sausages, brats, and other similar foods.

An herb, which is actually an evergreen plant native to the Mediterranean region but cultivated throughout Europe and America.

A small, round off-white vegetable (legume) grown in a pod similar to a pea or bean. They have a delicious nutty flavor and can be used as an alternative to the lima bean.