Butter Bean Salad
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It is already summer in chennai:-( From now on it will be more hot in months to come and we will definitely need to refresh ourselves with some fresh soups and salads. That is when Srivalli announced the themes for BM#26 and I signed up for this themes for week 1.
Butter beans or double beans is high in protein and protein in everyday diet is highly recommended and the salad is delicious too. So do try this out:-)
INGREDIENTS
Fresh Butter Beans 1 cup
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Coriander 1 tbsp
Lemon 1/2 (optional)
Salt as per taste
TO BE MIXED INTO THE DRESSING
Tomato sauce 1 tbsp
Olive oil 1 Tbsp
Pepper powder 1tsp
PREPARATION
Cook the beans with enough water and 1tsp salt upto 3 whistles
Let it cool and then transfer the beans without the water to a bowl
Cut the onions and tomatoes finely and add this to the cooked beans
Mix the tomato sauce, olive oil, pepper powder and salt to this
Mix well.
Sprinkle the cut coriander , squeeze the lemon.
Mix well and enjoy your bowl of salad!
Healthy salad..
intelligent idea of using butter beans, always love them
Ooh … Lovely one Veena.. Love double beans, but it seems out of season.. Have you used fresh or dry ones ??
Thanks Kalyani, Used the fresh one:-)
nice salad.very healthy too.
The salad looks nice, fresh and really filling! Good choice!
I am not looking forward to 8 months of summer in chennai though 🙁
so healthy dish – i can snack them too
what a clean and delightful salad
It's going to be more of a summer with the way things are going in here…sounds very good Veena. It's good to have you back.
Brilliant idea of making salad with butter beans, dunno why i never thought of making salad with BB.
Lovely and heathy salad.
Very healthy and easy to make.
Healthy and yummy salad. Loved the addition of butter beans
Very innovative thinking, would love to have these.
Yummy salad
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Butter beans is one of my fav ingredients. Never thought of making salad with it. The salad looks very filling and delicious…
wow such a protein rich salad!!!! i was searching for recipes with butterbeans.. bookmarking this!!
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Hi Veena,
I have dried butter beans, can I use them for this too?
you can use the dried one too. Soak it over night and then continue as mentioned above. Hope this helps
Very Filling Salad. I have a pack of Frozen Butter Beans, never tried it as a salad!!! Bookmarking!!! 🙂
Thank you everyone!!
I remember eating butter beans in Coimbatore…I am not sure if Vaal ,the same thing as butter beans …the ones we get here are green!!
A refreshing and healthy salad. Is butter beans the same as mochai?
yummy side dish ,too tempting!!
Sounds very interesting. I am not sure what these are but looking at the picture, I don't think I have come across these beans here in the US.
Such a healthy salad! looks delicious and tangy 🙂
A healthy one pot meal it is.. Really nice..
Healthy, nutritious & delicious looking bean salad.
Very healthy beans… look perfect
I love the way you hav pictured it! I love butterbeans.