- #SOUTHERN BUTTER BEAN RECIPE PRO#
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Vegetarian or Vegan - Omit bacon while cooking the beans, use olive oil where bacon drippings is called for, and don't sprinkle bacon on top before serving. Other buttery, creamy textured beans like navy beans, Great Northern, black-eyed peas, cannellini beans, or even red kidney beans will also work. Other beans- Trade out lima beans for any cooked broad beans like fava beans or Fordhook butter beans. Mature white butter beans are sometimes described as buttery, creamy or even "mealy". Baby lima beans are described as starchy like a fava bean. They are the same broad bean but lima beans are in the lime-green-colored immature stage of the butter bean, often called baby limas. They are technically two names for the same bean. Serving this Southern-style dip with corn chip scoopers will remind you of eating lima beans and cornbread. Best when served warm.Ĭreamy Lima Bean Dip sprinkled with crispy bacon Spoon into a serving bowl and sprinkle with cooked, crisp bacon. (Or, just use 2 tablespoons olive oil.) Slowly pour the bacon drippings or oil through the food chute, while the processor is running. Add enough olive oil to the reserved bacon drippings to make 2 tablespoons. Process the lima bean mixture until smooth. This will prevent pressure from building up from hot steam. #SOUTHERN BUTTER BEAN RECIPE PRO#
Pro Tip: If using a blender instead of a food processor, be sure to let the beans cool slightly and remove the center of the top to the blender slightly. Pour into a food processor or a large blender. Drain the lima beans, keeping the bacon and garlic with them.Meanwhile, cook the remaining sliced pieces of bacon in a small skillet over medium to medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp and browned drain on a paper towel.Reduce heat and simmer the lima beans 20 to 25 minutes or until very soft. Add about one-third of the pieces to the lima bean mixture. Stack the bacon and slice into 1/4-inch wide pieces.
Combine lima beans, chicken broth (or water), garlic, salt, and pepper in a large saucepan or small Dutch oven.
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If you have leftover cooked lima or butter beans, feel free to skip the cooking directions and go straight into the pureeing instructions.
Olive oil or reserved bacon drippings from cooking the bacon. Frozen or fresh lima beans (see shortcuts and substitutions for canned and dried beans) I like to buy "seasoned" lima beans that come with onion and red bell pepper for added flavor without adding to the ingredient list). Scroll down to printable recipe for ingredient quantities. I do NOT recommend Bacon Bits that are not really bacon, at all. These bags are found near the salad dressings. Use cooked REAL bacon pieces instead of frying bacon. Margaret Holmes makes a 27-ounce can seasoned lima beans with Vidalia onions. Using seasoned, canned lima beans requires no cooking. No need to thaw frozen lima beans before cooking. Some frozen lima beans are sold "seasoned" with onion and red or green bell pepper, adding another layer of flavor to the dip without adding another ingredient. The biggest shortcut is using 2 cups of leftover, cooked lima beans or butter beans to make this recipe. Did I mention it's pretty healthy at only has 25 calories per tablespoon? Bonus! Shortcuts I hope you enjoy this tasty, Southern party dip as much as we have. So, blending up these bacon-infused buttery beans sounded similar to me!Īnd, it was that easy! I simply drained the liquid from my flavorful Southern side dish, cooked lima beans, whipped them up in the food processor a minute and scooped it up with pita chips and corn chips. Why not? Chickpeas (garbanzo beans) are pureed with garlic, lemon, and tahini (sesame paste) and olive oil to make a popular legume paste we call hummus. Instead of serving them as leftovers at our next meal with my Instant Pot Pepper Jelly Ham, Candied Roasted Sweet Potatoes, and Strawberry Pretzel Salad, the idea of pureeing them and turning them into a party dip came to me! It was born out of making good use of my holiday side dish leftovers for a New Years Eve party.Īfter a meal, during the Christmas holidays, I discovered I completely forgot to serve an entire pot of baby lima beans! After the meal, there it sat with the lid on, hiding them on the stove. Healthy recipe that uses a favorite leftover Southern side dish.Īlthough I'm just now publishing this easy spread recipe on my blog, I introduced it at my second Holiday Cooking Show a few years ago. 
Serve with pita or corn chips for game day or as an easy party spread. Lima Bean Dip is made with flavorful baby green lima beans (butter beans) and sprinkled with crispy bacon.
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