Ingredients
- 1 pound Baby Lima Beans
- 1 tablespoon Salt
- 1 pound x to 1 ½ French cut green beans
- 1/4 cup butter
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- salt to taste
Make it step by step
- Pick over lima beans removing broken or damaged beans.
- Rinse with cool water. Cover with 2 inches or more water and soak for 48 hours, changing the water at least twice a day and rinsing the beans thoroughly. The last soaking water should have 1 Tablespoon of salt added to the water.
- Drain and rinse beans and put in large covered pot. Cook over high heat for 15 minutes.
- Skim and lower heat. Cook over low heat, checking tenderness of beans after 20 minutes, stirring beans well, then each 10 minutes and stirring beans well.
- When beans are tender but still hold their shape, add fresh or frozen green beans and cook just until green beans are hot.
- Stir in butter and add desired amount of sugar. Beans should not taste sweet like baked beans.
- Add salt to taste. I rarely add the butter and never add the sugar and this still tastes wonderful.
Nutrition and portions
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Recipe source
Adapted from Foodista by Yuna Wu, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.
Cook times in the method are source guidance, not a record of testing in our kitchen. Check food temperatures and ingredient labels when cooking.