Bean salad
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| Alternative names | 3 Bean Salad |
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| Type | Salad |
| Main ingredients | Beans (green beans, yellow wax beans), garbanzo beans, kidney beans, onions, peppers or other vegetables |
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Bean salad is a common salad dish composed of various beans -- (green beans and/or yellow wax beans), cooked chick peas (garbanzo beans), cooked kidney beans and typically onions, peppers or other vegetables, in a vinaigrette broth, sometimes sweetened with sugar. Some bean salads contain barley, pasta noodles or rice. It is common in some parts of the United States to refer to this sort of salad by the number of types of beans that it contains; e.g., "Three Bean Salad" or "Four Bean Salad." The generic term, "Bean Salad," can also be used to refer to completely unrelated dishes.
Salads of this type have commonly been used since at least the 19th century for picnics and outings, as they can be preserved with little refrigeration.
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