Three Bean Salad
Total time: 30 minutes
Strangely, this is a salad that I didn't like as a child. It was something I needed to put my own twist on, choose the beans and make the vinaigrette. Use any beans you like; these are my preferences for a pretty and flavorful salad.
Ingredients:
- green beans, 170gr, 6oz
- yellow wax beans, 170gr, 6oz
- 1 3/4 cup red kidney beans, 15.5oz (450gr)
- 1/2 red pepper or orange pepper, 80gr, 2.8oz
- 2 tbs fresh snipped chives
- 2 tbs brown sugar, 18gr, .6oz
- 1 tbs Dijon-style mustard, 15gr, .53oz
- 1/4 cup tarragon white wine vinegar,60gr, 2oz
- 3 tbs good olive oil, 40.5gr, 1.5oz
Instructions:
- Top and tail beans. Cut in 1" (2.5 cm) lengths.
- Bring a medium saucepan half full of water to a boil over high heat.
- Add beans and blanch for 4 minutes, until just tender.
- Drain beans and immediately submerge in an equal amount of very cold water.
- Drain again, spread out on paper towels, and pat dry. Put into a serving bowl.
- Drain kidney beans and add to bowl.
- Chop red pepper and add.
- Snip chives and add.
- In small bowl whisk together the sugar, mustard and vinegar.
- Slowly add the oil whisking constantly.
- Pour over beans and stir to combine.
- Set aside for at least 15 minutes.
- This keeps for several days in the fridge.
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| Nutrition Information Salad with Dressing Info is for entire recipe Calories: 927 Total Carbohydrates: 112 Dietary Fiber: 34 Total Fat: 43.5 Saturated Fat: 6 Cholesterol: 0 Protein: 29 Calcium: 229 Sodium: 1396 '---' means I don't have the info |
I didn't note serving size but, for me, it would be between
4 and 6 servings
Sodium is reduced by rinsing beans - but I don't know by how much so I used the 'un-rinsed' number.
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/
