The beans get their name from their place of origin — Lima, Peru — though the legume’s pronunciation includes a long “i” sound (lye-muh).

To cook dried lima beans: Rinse beans off and sort through them, discarding any stones. Then bring the batch to a boil in salted water, and boil for about 10 minutes.

In other words, this battle between lima beans vs. butter beans really just comes down to semantics. Lima beans appear to get their name from the capital of Peru in Central America, where people ...

Despite being the exact same thing, butter beans' and lima beans' divergent popularities come down to how they're sold and marketed. The younger version of the plant has a light green color and is ...