Bean And Sausage Salad
From spinach1948 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 6
The pairing of legumes wiyh sausage is a common in Italian dishes as it is in a French cassoulet. Cured sausage and beans make a nourishing supper. Adapted from Idone's "Salad Days" 1989
Ingredients
- Ingredients: shopping list
- 8-oz dried kidney beans shopping list
- 8-oz dried White pea or navy beans shopping list
- 2 quarts chicken stock shopping list
- 3 jalapeno peppers, halved crosswise shopping list
- 3 garlic cloves shopping list
- 1 medium onion, halved shopping list
- 1 tsp. Dried thyme shopping list
- 1 hot red chile pepper shopping list
- ½ pint red pearl onions, or 1 medium red onion shopping list
- ¾ cup vinaigrette shopping list
- ¼ cup chopped dill shopping list
- salt and freshly milled black pepper shopping list
- 1 Lb cured Italian or French hard sausage, thinly sliced shopping list
How to make it
- Method:
- 1)Wash and pick over each type of beans, keeping them separate.
- 2)Place type of bean in a saucepan and divide the stock between them. Add water, if necessary, to cover by 2 inches.
- 3)Place 2 Jalapeno halves in each pan of beans.
- 4)Crush and peel 2 of the garlic cloves. Add 1 to each pan.
- 5)Add ½ of the onion to each pan, along with half of the thyme.
- 6)Bring both pans to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 45 minutes, or until the beans are tender.
- 7)Remove from the heat and let the beans cool in their liquid.
- 8)When cool, drain the beans and discard the garlic, onion, and jalapenos. Combine the beans in a large bowl.
- 9)Remove the stems and seeds from the remaining jalapeno and the red chile. Cut into fine dice. Mince the remaining garlic clove. Add all of the diced peppers and the garlic to the beans.
- 10)Thinly slice the pearl onions. Separate them into rings and add to the beans.
- 11)Fold in the vinaigrette and dill. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- 12)Cover the beans and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
- 13)Let the beans warm to room temperature for 1 hour before serving.
- 14)Toss the beans well. Divide among 6 dinner plates. Arrange about 6 slices of sausage around each plate. Serve.
- Calories: 810 per serving. To lower the calories use lite or fat free Vinaigrette.
- Wine: Cote Rotie
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