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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.
Course Salad
Cuisine American
Keyword Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard, salad dressing, salad, easy
Prep Time 20 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 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

Instructions

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