Receta Colorful Bean Salad
Easy, make-ahead salad that is perfect for potlucks, cookouts, summer barbecues and picnics.
Colorful Bean Salad
by Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
4.29.14
I am really fond of bean salads of all types, including bean salsas. I didn’t used to be. In fact, I remember a time when I tasted bean salad from a can (first time I’d had bean salad) and thought to myself that it had a lot of potential, but not with the flavor of metal added.
Bean salad is so much better when made from scratch! The vinaigrette is fairly straight-forward, a simple light sweetened type, but it can vary with more or less sweetness and a great deal of seasonings to give it variety. Not to mention the whole array of different things you can add to a bean salad. Such as this recipe, which uses olive, although that is not typical of the basic bean salad.
When presented with many options to make a salad your own, you may even find yourself adding things like grilled chicken, and then spooning some of the bean salad along with the meat over chopped greens for a main dish salad. SO the sky really is the limit if you use your imagination and let it run wild.
And as always, I do hope you enjoy!
~Sue
Colorful Bean Salad
Ingredients:
- 1 16-ounce can tri-color beans (dark red kidney beans, light red kidney beans, black beans)
- 1 16-ounce can garbanzo beans or chickpeas
- 1 16-ounce can blue lake cut green beans
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 cup finely diced celery
- 1/4 cup sliced black olives
- 1/4 cup drained diced pimientos
- 2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons chopped garlic or garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose seasoned salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup white balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup Splenda granular -OR- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
Method:
Rinse beans with water in a strainer and drain.
Whisk together oil, vinegar, Splenda or sugar, garlic, parsley, seasoned salt and black pepper.
Toss dressing with ingredients in a mixing bowl and marinate, refrigerated, for several hours or overnight.
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