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I've just listened to a two part BBC Food Program podcast focusing on beans and Spain. I'm feeling inspired. I love to cook with beans but too often they are a bulk replacement for meat or carbs and not the star of the show. I'm now on the look out for a recipe book that includes lots of bean recipes from Spain. Any suggestions? Thanks.

You might want to check out The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas.  She has 27 recipes that include beans.

I would give a shout out to Janet Mendel. I got Cooking in Spain years ago, after Simon Hopkinson put a chickpea and spinach recipe of hers in the Independent and all the Amazon reviewers based in Spain said that this was the book that really reflected the food they ate.

I loved the programme too, and hot-footed it yesterday to buy a jar of butter beans and a jar of chickpeas. I busked it by frying a shallot and a few slices of chorizo in olive oil plus some rosemary. I added garlic and semi dried tomatoes and then half the jar of butter beans. At the end I added a good glug of olive oil and parsley and it was delicious.

I think I could have used less ingredients and it would have been just as good. I did find the beans saltier than I'm used to. 

I've just put an order in from Basco Fine Foods, who import dried beans (and lots of other temptations), although I usually buy British pulses from Hodmedod's. But it is the tail end of Hodmedod's pulse season, although I strongly advise a wander round their website.

Samantha and Samuel Clarke of Moro put quite a few bean recipes in their books, which are Spanish/North African in style

I like José Pizarro as a Spanish cook, worth looking at his books to see if there are a lot more bean recipes to find, Here's his classic Judion bean recipe.

I was looking at beans in the Brindisa shop on Borough Market on Saturday, Spanish pulses dry and in jars but the green flageolets were £14 for 500g, they were beautiful, so green and shiny they looked more like Tic-Tac mints than pulses, but I didn't buy any.

I don't think the problem here will be finding recipes but finding quality beans at reasonable prices. 

Hello, I can recommend an awesome book I have, but I don´t think it is translated into English, although if you are really interested in certain recipes you can use deepl translator (I do that for the French cooking magazines I buy):

https://www.amazon.es/co...res-Cocina/dp/8408161857

There are loads of recipes on this website here! https://boldbeanco.com/blogs/beanspo-recipes

We're actually thinking of writing a cookbook so if you have any feedback at all on them it would be much appreciated!

The trouble with Epicurious is that its recipes are now behind a paywall, as are Bon Appétit's.