Bean And Tomato Salad Recipe

Bean and Tomato Salad

From chacha 15 years ago

This is such an amazing salad. If you don't want to use dried Cannellini beans, canned are just fine but be sure to rinse them.

3/4 cup dried white kidney beans or also known as cannellini shopping list
1 pint grape tomatoes, washed and halved shopping list
a large handful of fresh parsley, trimmed and chopped shopping list
1/2 cup feta cheese, broken into bits shopping list
8-10 Καλαμάτα - Kalamáta olives, pitted and roughly chopped or left whole shopping list
Dressing: shopping list
1/4 cup olive oil shopping list
3 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed with a knife or coarsely chopped shopping list
1 teaspoon lemon zest shopping list
juice from 1 lemon shopping list
fresh ground black pepper shopping list
Note: I usually double the dressing ingredients. shopping list

Rinse the white kidney beans under cold running water and soak overnight covered in several inches of cold water with a little lemon juice added.
Drain the beans and cover again with cold water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 1 hour or until the beans are soft but not falling apart.
Drain and set aside to cool.
Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan over medium heat with the garlic. Once the garlic begins to sizzle, just a few minutes, remove from heat and let stand for 20 minutes to allow the garlic to infuse in the oil.
Remove the garlic from the oil.
Set aside the oil and add the garlic to a small food processor along with the lemon zest and lemon juice.
Process until smooth. Season with pepper.
Drizzle the dressing over the beans and let stand for a few minutes for the flavors to absorb.
Gently fold in the halved grape tomatoes, parsley, Feta cheese, pitted and chopped Kalamáta olives and the reserved olive oil, and serve.
To serve, I like to place this salad on a large lettuce leaf.
Serves 4

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laadeedaa ate it and said...
Well now, my hubby and I had a salad similar to this when we were visiting Greece. We enjoyed it there so much and I have been trying to duplicate it but can't seem to get the ingredients right. This is wonderful and thanks so much. High 5.
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Well now, my hubby and I had a salad similar to this when we were visiting Greece. We enjoyed it there so much and I have been trying to duplicate it but can't seem to get the ingredients right. This is wonderful and thanks so much. High 5.

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