6 runner bean recipes for easy side dishes, salads and summer dinners

This fiery condiment makes the perfect accompaniment for punchy cheese toasties, a classic ploughman's, or in antipasti platters and sandwiches

This summer salad is a great use of the humble runner bean. Try to find young tender beans if you can, but this also works with bigger, more firm specimens.

Revamp your runner beans this summer with our pan-fried recipe, matched with a super fresh and zesty dip called bagna cauda

This recipe for runner beans with tomato and black onion seeds is vegan, low-cal and gluten free making it an easy, please-everyone side dish

New idea for a vegetarian curry using runner beans. These often-overlooked veg make a tasty, spicy dish and work well with Indian spices and coconut milk.

Runner beans can be cooked briefly so they still have a little bite or slowly stewed in a sauce until really tender. This recipe cooks them slowly with tomatoes, chilli and cloves.