How to Use butter bean in a Sentence
butter bean
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Rinse and drain 1 pound dry gigante beans or large butter beans.
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Jessica Saari Christensen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 May 2026
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Great Northern or even butter beans would work too.
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Nina Moskowitz,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 Dec. 2025
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My favorite dish was the butter beans and morels, which were soothing.
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Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
2 July 2026
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This old-school salad is meant to be eaten alongside cooked-to-death vegetables, like collards or butter beans, to brighten them up.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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They can be mixed into soups or stews, mashed to make butter bean dip, incorporated into salads, or added to dishes with ground meat, such as tacos.
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Sarah Bradley,
Health,
23 June 2026
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There is no sign of grief inside, however, where throngs of people enjoy cocktails, Dungeness crab and plates of herby butter beans.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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A lot of Southerner's remember their grandmothers making a recipe just like this old-school pea salad to use as a topping for collard greens, corn pudding, and butter beans!
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Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
2 Nov. 2025
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On many tables was a seasonal Dungeness crab dish with green-garlic butter, and seemingly on every single table were those butter beans with greens (for tonight, Caraflex cabbage).
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Folks in the South will recognize ingredients like oxtails and butter beans, which are combined with Jamaican green seasoning, Scotch bonnet, and allspice in Fowles's recipe.
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Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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Each can contains butter beans, water, salt, and preservatives calcium chloride and calcium disodium EDTA (which act as firming and color-retention agents).
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Rebecca Firkser,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 June 2026
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