White Bean (Cannellini) and Radish Salad

Total time: 10 minutes (plus eggs)
     Radishes are so plentiful in the spring, and/or easy to grow your own.  The beans and vinaigrette tone down the heat, letting their flavor shine. A 15oz can of beans yields about 1 1/2 cups, rinsed and drained beans.

 Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup white beans (cannellini), 270gr,  9.5oz
• 1/2 cup sliced radishes, 58gr,  2oz
• 1 tbs freshly snipped chives    substitute 1 tsp dried
• 1 clove garlic, minced, 4gr,  .14oz
• 1 hard boiled egg, 65gr,  2.3oz
• Lettuce leaves, a few for serving
• Vinaigrette
• 1 tbs tarragon white wine vinegar, 15gr, .53oz
• 1 tbs lemon juice, 15gr,  .53oz
• 1 tbs chopped fresh chives    substitute 1 tsp dried
• 1 shallot, 22gr,  .77oz
• 1 clove garlic, 4gr,  .14oz
• 2 tsp Dijon-style mustard, 10gr,  .35oz
• 3 tbs good olive oil, 40.5gr,  1.4oz

 Instructions:

• Boil eggs (see techniques). 
• Drain and rinse beans and put in a medium bowl. 
• Slice radishes, mince garlic, snip chives and add all to beans.  
• Make Vinaigrette: Mince (chop finely - see techniques for definitions) shallots and garlic, snip chives and put in medium bowl with vinegar, juice and mustard. 
• Whisk well. 
• Add oil very slowly whisking all of the time.  It should incorporate as you add it.  If it does not, stop adding oil for a few moments and just whisk.  Continue until all oil is added.  Add salt and pepper if desired.
• Add vinaigrette to salad and toss gently. 
• When eggs are cooked, peel and chop coarsely.  Add to bean salad and mix lightly. 
• Arrange 3 - 4 nice lettuce leaves on salad plates, put bean salad on top and garnish with olives if you have them.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  874 / 437 Total Carbohydrates:  78 / 39           Dietary Fiber: 19 / 9.5 Total Fat:  48 / 24          Saturated Fat: 8 / 4 Cholesterol:  275 / 137.5 Protein:  33 / 15.5 Calcium:  321 / 160.5 Sodium:   888 / 444

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale
and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/