Moms 3 Bean Salad Food

THREE BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Drain and rinse beans and place in a large bowl. Add onion.
• Whisk together dressing ingredients until completely combined (or shake in a jar with a lid). Pour over beans and refrigerate until ready to serve (up to 24 hours in advance).

THREE BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Set up a large bowl of ice water. Add the fresh beans to the boiling water, and cook until crisp-tender, about 4 to 5 minutes. Drain and plunge the beans into the ice water to stop the cooking and set their color. Drain.
• In a medium bowl, combine the beans and the onion. In a small saucepan, bring the sugar, vinegar, oil, and salt to a simmer. Pour the liquid over the beans. Marinate the beans at room temperature for 1 hour, tossing several times. Just before serving, season with salt and pepper to taste, add the parsley. Serve.

MOM'S SWEET AND SOUR BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Mix ingredients and chill.

2 TERRIFIC SALAD SIDES: 3 BEAN SALAD AND POTATO SALAD WITH SWEET RED PEPPER AND ONION

Steps:

• Place red potatoes in a pot and cover with water. Place pot on stove, cover and bring to a boil. Liberally salt water with coarse salt. Place a colander over boiling pot. Take your first ingredient from the bean salad, 1/2 pound cut fresh green beans, and place them in the colander. Cover the colander with pot lid. Steam beans 5 minutes while potatoes boil below. Remove beans and cold shock under running water. Drain green beans and set aside.
• When the potatoes are just tender, about 12 minutes, remove from heat, turn off burner, drain potatoes and cold shock them under running water until just cool enough to handle. Coarsely chop potatoes and return them to the warm pot. Add peppers, onions, mint, parsley and vinegar to the pot. Toss to allow the vinegar to absorb into the potatoes. Add oil and stir the potatoes until they mash up a bit and salad has a spoonable consistency. Season with salt and pepper, to taste, and transfer to a serving bowl.
• In a bowl, combine mustard, sugar and vinegar. Whisk in oil. Add kidney beans, garbanzo beans, green beans and parsley to the bowl and toss to coat bean salad evenly with dressing. Season salad with salt and pepper, to taste, and serve.

WARM THREE-BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Cook a 12-ounce bag cut green beans as the label directs. Whisk 3 tablespoons olive oil, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 tablespoon grainy mustard, 1 minced garlic clove and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper in a bowl. Cook 1 chopped red onion in olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat, 2 minutes. Add one 15-ounce can drained cannellini beans, one 10-ounce bag thawed frozen edamame and the green beans; heat through. Toss with the dressing, sprinkle with parsley.

MOM'S BEST 3-BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Put first 5 ingredients in a large bowl.
• Combine sugar and white vinegar in a small saucepan. Heat until sugar is dissolved, about 3-4 minutes.
• Pour sugar/vinegar mixture over vegetables. Cover and chill in refrigerator for at least one hour.
• This can be kept in the refrigerator for a week. If it lasts that long!

MARINATED THREE BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Combine ingredients in a bowl.
• Chill overnight.
• Toss before serving.

MOM'S THREE-BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Drain both the Green and Wax beans and add them to your bowl. Drain and rinse the kidney beans before adding them as well. Add both the Onion and pepper strips. In a saucepan bring all the ingredients for the dressing to a boil, stirring as necessary until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly before pouring over the bean mixture. Stir to make sure everything is well coated and let sit in the fridge for 24 hours before serving.

BABA'S THREE-BEAN SALAD

Steps:

• Drain kidney beans; rinse with cold water and drain again.
• Combine all beans in a bowl with onion and olives.
• Add sugar, vinegar and oil; mix lightly.
• Chill at least 24 hours.
• Use slotted spoon to serve.