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Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, meditteranean bean salad π. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This is an easy, healthy salad that is a great side dish to BBQ chicken, beef or fish! It can also be easily adapted to a Tex-Mex style by changing the lemon to lime, parsley to cilantro and adding ground cumin and/or chili powder! Be sure to add the lemon zest (or lime zest) as this really adds a ZING to the salad! This Mediterranean Bean Salad is so light and fresh, made with lemon juice, mint and parsley.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook meditteranean bean salad π using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
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The ingredients needed to make Meditteranean Bean Salad π:
- Prepare 1/2 Can kidney beans
- Prepare 1/2 Canalini beans
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Butter Beans
- Take 1 small jar artichoke drained and halved
- Prepare 1 handful Cherry Tomatoes
- Make ready 1/2 Parmesan cheese crumbled
- Make ready 1/2 cup pitted black olives and green olives
- Take 1/4 cup Red onion
- Make ready 2 tsp chopped fresh parsley
- Take 1/3 cup sun dried tomatoes halved and in olive oil
- Make ready Salt and black pepper
Pop open a can, drain and rinse, and you've got a nutritional powerhouse just waiting to make you a healthier person ~ you don't need a fancy diet, you just need to eat more beans! Mediterranean Bean Salad packs chickpeas, white beans, your favorite Mediterranean vegetables and feta cheese into one healthy salad and is topped with a light lemony dressing. This works perfectly as a side dish to a meal or even as lunch with pita bread and hummus. We've added a lot of extra goodies here like celery, cucumber, onion, tomato, parsley and basil and it's all tossed in a delicious Italian vinaigrette.
Instructions to make Meditteranean Bean Salad π:
- In a bowl add the Tomatoes then the red onion. Then the artichokes.
- Add the sundried tomatoes cut in half with the olive oil on them. Boil the beans then rinse in cold water and drain. Add the Beans then toss to mix up
- Add salt and pepper, green + Black pitted Olives. Then crumble the cheese all over the top. Mix and add a little more cheese to the top also chop the parsley add that all over too.
- Add to smaller containers to put in the fridge or have it with whatever you have planned to cook today.
This works perfectly as a side dish to a meal or even as lunch with pita bread and hummus. We've added a lot of extra goodies here like celery, cucumber, onion, tomato, parsley and basil and it's all tossed in a delicious Italian vinaigrette. Occasionally, I'll switch out the cannellini beans for steamed green beans. People often think of salad as the back-up singer to the main event. But in Mediterranean cooking, the lines are easily blurred.
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