Light and Luscious 3 Bean Salad
It's green bean season, and fresh green beans are showing up and showing-off their tender beauty in Farmer's Markets. Buy several pounds to make an easy, light, flavor-rich 3-bean salad. Buzz Savories 3-Bean Salad can be made several days prior to servng and travels well to picnics and camping adventures.
Prep Time : 20 minutes
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Servings : 8
Easy, Light, Luscious 3 Bean Salad
It’s green bean season, and fresh green beans are showing-off their tender beauty in our Farmer’s Market. I buy several pounds to make a light, satisfying, full-of-flavor and nourishing salad. Buzz Savories 3-Bean Salad compliments my favorite meats and vegetables on the grill, and stands alone with a fork an a bowl.
Buzz Savories Honey Mustard adds a slightly sweet flavor and an interesting complex taste to the salad.
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Light and Luscious 3 Bean Salad
It's green bean season, and fresh green beans are showing up and showing-off their tender beauty in Farmer's Markets. Buy several pounds to make an easy, light, flavor-rich 3-bean salad. Buzz Savories 3-Bean Salad can be made several days prior to servng and travels well to picnics and camping adventures.
Servings 8
What You'll Need:
- 1 ½ lbs. fresh green beans
- 1 can kidney beans
- 1 can garbanzo beans beans
- 1 whole green pepper or 1/2 green and 1/2 red peppers
- 1 cup chopped tender herbs - parsley, chives, dill, oregano optional
Buzz Savories Honey Mustard Dressing
- 1 Tb Buzz Savories Honey Mustard
- 2 Tb rice vinegar or white wine vinegar
- 1 Tb fresh lemon juice
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 ½ tsp salt (or salt to taste)
- ¼ tsp freshly cracked pepper
How To Prepare:
How to Prepare
- Clip the stem ends of the green beans and snap in halfs or thirds
- Bring a large pot of water to boil and add 1 Tb. salt
- Set up and ice bath by filling a medium bowl half full of ice and cold water
- Drop the beans into the boiling water and cook until tender when pierced with a fork, approximately 4 minutes
- Drain beans and immediately place them in the ice bath to stop the cooking process and preserve their bright green color
- Chill untili the beans feel cold, about 6 minutes, then drain and dry the beans
Buzz Savories Honey Mustard 3-Bean Dressing
- Add oil, vinegar, lemon juice, Buzz Savories Honey Mustard, salt and freshly cracked pepper into a jar and blend with a stick blender or screw a lid onto the jar and shake vigorously until blended
Mixing the salad
- Open the cans of kidney beans and garbanzo beans. Drain and rinse the beans in cold water
- Finely chop the tender herbs if using
- In a large owl, dump the canned beans and gently mix in the fresh green beans and the finely shopped tender herbs and the diced green pepper
- Dress the salad with 4 Tb of dressing then taste and add more to taste and taste for salt also
- Cover and chill. The Buzz Svories Honey Mustard 3-Beans salad will keep refrigerated for 1 week or more and is picnic-proof