Lima Beans Wjowls Or Salt Pork Sallye Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet. Add the onion and sauté over medium heat until golden. Add the lima beans and tomatoes and bring to a simmer. Cook gently until the lima beans are done to your liking.
• Stir in the dill, season with salt and pepper, and serve.
• Lima beans are an essential ingredient in succotash, a Native American dish that has several interesting regional variations. Green baby limas have a delicate flavor that I find more appealing than that of dry limas, which are bland and mealy. Green lima beans are particularly good in highly seasoned tomato-based soups or stews, in sweet-and-sour dishes, and served over rice. Two other varieties are butter beans and fordhooks.
• Lima Beans with Tomatoes and Dill (this page)
• Lightly Embellished Brown Rice (page 91)
• Corn on the cob
• Bountiful tossed salad
• Calories: 130
• Total Fat: 2g
• Protein: 6g
• Carbohydrate: 21g
• Cholesterol: 0mg
• Sodium: 34mg

Steps:

• Simmer lima beans in water with 1teaspoon salt in a 5-quart pot, covered, until just tender, about 15 minutes.
• Purée beans with cooking liquid in batches in a food processor until smooth, then force purée through a medium-mesh sieve or a food mill fitted with fine disk into a large bowl.
• Heat half-and-half and butter in a small saucepan over moderate heat until butter is melted, then stir into bean purée along with cayenne, black pepper, and remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt. If purée is too thick, thin to desired consistency with additional half-and-half.

Steps:

• 1. Wash beans thoroughly, picking through to remove any stones or other foreign objects (such as dirt clods) Put beans in crockpot with 1 gallon water (or more if needed to cover to about 2" above level of dried beans. Turn crockpot on to high
• 2. Sear hog jowls in heavy skillet, then transfer to crockpot with beans Add stick of butter
• 3. Continue cooking on high for approximately one hour, checking to make sure beans are still completely covered by water Dried beans will absorb a lot of water while cooking At this time, add salt and pepper and stir well to blend
• 4. Turn crockpot to medium or low and cook for 6-8 hours until beans are tender and thickened into a sort of soup.
• 5. Good served with cornbread and fresh green or sliced onions.