Lima Beans, also called Butter Beans, are scrumptious. This straightforward dish is consolation meals at its greatest and a improbable solution to get pleasure from a hearty meal.

In the event you love this hearty dish, additionally, you will love this scrumptious Pork Roast and White Beans. It’s one in every of our hottest crock pot dishes. After all each require cornbread!
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
We love straightforward recipes with a lot of style and received’t preserve you within the kitchen for hours. That is a kind of recipes, and it’s budget-friendly too. This Butter Bean recipe is ideal on a chilly day and it reheats nicely too. This recipe could be made within the crock pot too!
ARE LIMA BEANS AND BUTTER BEANS THE SAME?
Sure, they’re the identical bean, however they’re generally picked at totally different phases of maturity. Additionally they go by totally different names relying on the area. Within the South, they’re identified extra as Butter Beans. (source)
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Bag of enormous dried lima beans
- Ham hock with some meat nonetheless on the bone or 1 cup chopped ham of your alternative
- Onion, chopped
- Minced garlic
- Pepper
- Salt
- 2 – 4 cups rice, cooked in response to package deal instructions relying on how many individuals you’re serving (See Tip Part)
SWAPS
You might all the time use bacon because the meat supply and add different seasonings your loved ones likes. You’ll be able to simply eat these as soup beans and never serve them over rice, that’s your determination.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
This dish could be very straightforward to make, the longest a part of the method is soaking the beans, which we do in a single day.

COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Rinse and kind beans and soak them in a single day in a big pot of water. Subsequent morning, drain and soak water and rinse the beans.

Step 2
Add six cups of contemporary water, the chopped onion, garlic, pepper, and ham or ham hock. Simmer beans with lid tilted on pot for about 3 hours till tender, then add salt. (I all the time salt dried beans after they’re finished. They take longer to cook dinner in case you salt them throughout the cooking course of.) If utilizing a ham hock, take away it from pot and take the ham from the bone and add again to the beans. Serve over rice.

Step 3 – Crock Pot
These beans could be cooked within the crock pot as nicely. Cook dinner on excessive for 4 hours or low for about seven hours till tender.

⭐TIP
When making rice, 1 cup of raw rice, will make 2 cups cooked. So do not forget that when making rice for this dish. If you’d like 2 cups of cooked rice for this dish, then you’ll solely must make 1 cup of rice.
RECIPE VARIATIONS – SOUTHERN BUTTER BEANS
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❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
You rinse them in chilly water.
Some individuals like their beans actually cooked and others like them with much less mush. It’s actually as much as you to seek out what you want greatest.
STORING AND REHEATING
We retailer these in a giant pot within the fridge and reheat on the range. If we made them within the crock pot, we simply put them again on low till they’re heat.
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SERVING SIZE
This makes round 8 servings and you may all the time stretch this meal with the rice.

Lima Beans with Ham over Rice
Lima Beans also called Butter Beans are really easy to make and fantastic consolation meals. This hearty dish could be made within the crock pot too. We find it irresistible over rice!
- 1 1 pound bag of enormous dried lima beans
- 1 massive ham hock with some meat nonetheless on the bone or 1 cup chopped ham of your alternative
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 – 4 cups rice cooked in response to package deal instructions relying on how many individuals you’re serving
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Rinse and kind beans, soak in a single day in a big pot of water. Subsequent morning, drain soak water and rinse beans. Add six cups of contemporary water, the chopped onion, garlic, pepper, and ham or ham hock.
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Simmer beans with lid tilted on pot for about 3 hours till tender, then add salt. (I all the time salt dried beans after they’re finished. They take longer to cook dinner in case you salt them throughout the cooking course of.)
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If utilizing a ham hock, take away it from pot and take the ham from the bone and add again to the beans. Serve over rice. These beans could be cooked within the crock pot as nicely. Cook dinner on excessive for 4 hours or low about seven hours till tender.
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