lima beans
Flat green legumes
Lima beans are large, flat, pale green or white legumes with a creamy texture when cooked.
Named after Lima, Peru, they appear in succotash and other dishes.
Children notoriously dislike them: Eat your lima beans or no dessert.
Also called butter beans, especially in the American South.
- succotashCorn and limas stewed
- Southern cookingRegional American culinary tradition
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- school lunchMidday institutional meal
- frozen vegetablesProduce preserved by cold
picky eaters · ham hock · green · heirloom varieties · soybeans · childhood · shell · creamy · cook · pod · starchy · boiled · pale · Southern · staple food · cassoulet · flat · fava
legume preference/palatability
lima beanscandy
Sugary edible treats
ice cream · chocolate · pizza · french fries · dessert
bean/legume type
lima beanssnap peas
Whole-pod vegetable
green beans · string beans · snow peas · sugar snap peas · edamame