Wayne Gisslen

Dried Legumes

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition
Professional Cooking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

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Dried beans and peas have been used as food for thousands of years, and they continue to be important foods today. In fact, with today’s increased interest in healthful eating and in vegetables of all sorts, many more interesting varieties of beans are widely available now than only a few years ago.

Although legumes are dried forms of seed vegetables, they are hard and starchy and handled much like grains (which are also dried seeds). Grains and legumes are discussed in more detail in Chapter 14.