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Simple and Sensational Marinated Bean Summer Salad

Ingredients

Marinated Bean Salad

  • 1 medium shallot or 3 or 4 green onions dice and include green stems of the onion
  • 1 cup tender herbs – mint, parsley, cilantro, chives and/or dill
    chop into a fine dice -approximately 1/2 cup
  • 2 15 oz. cans great northern beans and red beans or substitute navy beans, cannellini beans or garbanzo beans

     rinse the beans
  • 1 tsp. salt

Sensational Salad Dressing

  • 2 Tb. Spicy Beer Mustard
  • ¼ cup white vine vinegar or rice vinegar
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ¾ cup Canola Oil or Olive Oil

Instructions

  • Combine the shallot, herbs, salt and beans in a non corrosive bowl
  • In an emulsifier/blender/food processor combine the Spicy beer Mustard, salt and vinegar
  • Slowly stream in the oil until the mixture forms an emulsion
  • Pour 4 Tb. of dressing into the bean mixture and gently stir, taste and adjust seasonings and amount of dressing
  • Caution: too much dressing and salad may be soggy
  • Cover and refrigerate up to 8 days

Notes

Marinated Bean Salad
Ingredients
 
 
 
Rinse the beans
 
Dressing for the Beans
Ingredients
2 Tablespoons of Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
Pour the Spicy Beer Mustard and vinegar into the food processor or blender¼ cup white wine or rice vinegar
¾ cup canola oil or olive oil
½ tsp. salt
Process
Combine and mix the vinegar and the Spicy Beer Mustard
In your food process or blender, pour a thin stream of oil into the blender to form an emulsion
Combine the beans, tender herbs, salt into an enamel or glass bowl then drizzle approximately 3 Tablespoons of Spicy Beer Mustard Dressing over the beans, taste and add more dressing if desired.   
Serve chilled or at room temperature. 
I guess I’m cooking when I prepare the Simple, Sensational Bean Salad.  I like thinking of a quote from Ruth Reichl in her book Save Me the Plums:  My Gourmet Memoir