Moosewood White Bean and Tomato Salad
photo by dicentra
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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6 cups
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
- 2 (15 ounce) cans cannellini beans or (15 ounce) cans kidney beans, drained
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1⁄4 cup red onion, minced
- 6 celery ribs, with leaves sliced (optional)
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1 tablespoon fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 2 tomatoes, cubed or (15 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, drained
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar (optional)
- salt and pepper, to taste
directions
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Serve at room temperature.
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Reviews
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I used a few alternate ingredients in this recipe, but it turned out crisp and perfect nonetheless. I halved the recipe, used minced garlic in olive oil, omitted the celery, used fresh basil, and substituted apple cider vinegar. This is a great side item for grilling chicken or seafood. It is also very light.
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I have been making this recipe for about 20 years from the Moosewood cookbook, and I've always loved it. Today I had no lemons on hand, so I subbed a tablespoon each of apple cider and red wine vinegar. WOW! It is sooo delicious. I could eat the whole bowl. I do use the celery--but I follow the original recipe's instructions to use the pale, center stalks--so they are really quite small and 6 of them are probably not even equivalent to 3 outer stalks. I think they add so much to this recipe, and I'm not normally a huge celery fan.
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Absolutely one of my favourite go to salads. Easy to make, keeps well in the fridge for up to a week. I modified it a bit, as I've made this recipe several times now. Here is my final version use fresh tomatoes, 4-5 depending on size, seeded; 1/2 cup minced red onion; Grape-seed instead of olive oil; 1/2 of a peeled and seeded english cucumber, chopped; sprinkled cayenne pepper around and over the ingredients, so maybe 1/4 tsp; original had too much celery for our taste, so I use 2 large stalks of chopped celery; for the beans, I use 1 19oz can of a mixed bean blend, as I like the taste better with a few types of beans. It really seems to enhance the flavours. Don't be shy on the garlic, I use 2 large cloves, minced and for the lemon, I use the juice of a whole lemon or even add in another half if the lemon is on the smaller side. The rest of the ingredients are per the original recipe. We love this recipe, and make it at least once per month as it goes with sandwiches for lunch, or for dinner with chicken really well. My thanks to death_by_parsnip for posting the original recipe!
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Absolutely one of my favourite go to salads. Easy to make, keeps well in the fridge for up to a week. I modified it a bit, as I've made this recipe several times now. Here is my final version use fresh tomatoes, 4-5 depending on size, seeded; 1/2 cup minced red onion; Grape-seed instead of olive oil; 1/2 of a peeled and seeded english cucumber, chopped; sprinkled cayenne pepper around and over the ingredients, so maybe 1/4 tsp; original had too much celery for our taste, so I use 2 large stalks of chopped celery; for the beans, I use 1 19oz can of a mixed bean blend, as I like the taste better with a few types of beans. It really seems to enhance the flavours. Don't be shy on the garlic, I use 2 large cloves, minced and for the lemon, I use the juice of a whole lemon or even add in another half if the lemon is on the smaller side. The rest of the ingredients are per the original recipe. We love this recipe, and make it at least once per month as it goes with sandwiches for lunch, or for dinner with chicken really well. My thanks to death_by_parsnip for posting the original recipe!
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I love whole foods and fish and dislike meat. I am also a part-time vegan and catholic (check out http://flaxonfriday.blogspot.com/). I enjoy cooking for myself, my husband, and my little girl. I cook to manage my IBS.