Three Bean Salad
A delicious combination of beans, veggies
and oil and herbs.
Yes! Another three bean salad! Like we said before - you can never have too many three bean salads. They do make a great side dish for just about any meal. This particular three bean salad can pretty much be a meal by itself. It is just chock full of delicious veggies and beans! It provides almost 10 grams of protein per serving as well as 8 grams of fiber!
Serve this salad on the deck this summer with friends and family. Pair it with a fresh loaf of crusty bread and a nice red wine and it is a complete meal! We're sure you will enjoy this recipe. And as always, please let us know what you think. We enjoy hearing from our visitors.
Three Bean Salad
Ingredients
1 cup of canned red kidney beans, drained
1 cup of canned white or Great Northern beans,
drained
1 cup of fresh, cooked green beans
1/2 red onion, diced
1/2 green Bell pepper, diced
1 stalk of celery, thin diagonal sliced
1 medium tomato, diced
1/4 cup of chopped parsley or cilantro
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. of dried basil
1 Tbsp. EVOO or grapeseed oil
2 Tbsp. of red wine vinegar
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp fresh, ground black pepper
How we make it
In a large bowl, combine the beans, green pepper,
tomato, onion and celery.
Whisk together in a small bowl the oil and vinegar.
Combine with veggies in larger bowl.
Add in the parsley or cilantro, garlic, basil sea salt
and black pepper and mix well.
Cover and refrigerate at least one hour before serving.
Serve chilled.
Serves 4 to 6
180 calories per serving (assume serving 4),9.6g protein,
28.5g carbohydrate, 4.0g fat, 88mg sodium, 8.3g fiber.
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