In this guide I will show you how to cook them fresh or dried with canned version at the back of your cupboard as a great fallback.

Instant Pot Cranberry Beans, an 11-minute recipe for cooking dried cranberry beans, or borlotti beans, in a pressure cooker or Instant Pot.

A rich and smoky 3 bean chilli that combines borlotti, cannellini and kidney beans with spices, chilli and a hint of cocoa.

A delicious Italian inspired one pot pumpkin stew with borlotti beans, cavolo nero and barley. It’s easy to make, super healthy and vegan.

All over Italy, this rustic dish of pasta and beans is regularly served at home, with each family having its personal adaptations.

How To Cook Fresh Borlotti Beans. Slow cooked borlotti beans flavoured with tomato, garlic and sage.

Creamy, comforting and absolutely delicious.So good, in fact, this is the only way Turks cook fresh cranberry beans!

This delicious Tuscan Bean Stew is such an easy one-pot dinner. Packed with flavours of Italy, it can be made on the hob or slow cooker.

This Italian Two Bean Salad makes a great antipasto or BBQ side on a warm summer day.

Cosy and tasty roasted butternut squash with fragrant giant couscous filling.

Nourishing and delicious borlotti beans salad, enriched with gorgeous sundried tomatoes and herbs.

Vegan sausages, baby carrots and borlotti beans in a rich, smokey tomato gravy. Perfect autumnal comfort food!

This quick & easy one pot stew ticks so many boxes – it’s gluten free, dairy free, vegan, full of goodness & above all totally delicious!

Delicious and impressive this Spanish Style Red Wine and Lamb Shank Casserole is incredibly easy to make.

Italian Slow Cooker Cranberry Bean Soup with Greens

Sage, garlic, borlotti beans, potatoes, carrot and pancetta make this Italian soup! Use leftovers as a bean dip the next day or freeze.

This smoky and spicy vegan chili is a perfect winter-warmer, with borlotti beans, puy lentils and a selection of warm and smoky spices.

Borlotti beans in tomato sauce with eggs are the perfect comfort dish: easy, quick, and perfect on a cold winter weeknight.

This fresh Borlotti Beans with tomatoes recipe is an easy way to taste these wonderful legumes.

Radicchio cups with borlotti beans and tuna: a store-cupboard standby graduates to a casual first course.

A hearty and filling beany hotpot is a warming supper for a grey day, perfect served with a hunk of crusty sourdough.

A more adventurous version of the traditional baked beans on toast dish, with four types of bean and a little bit of chorizo.