Three Bean Salad With Bacon Dressing
Recipe: #8204
February 22, 2013
Categories: Salads, Vegetable Salad, Beans, Chickpeas/Garbanzo, Picnic Potluck, Kidney Beans, Green Beans, more
"If you love bacon and you love bean salad, then this is right up your alley. The dressing is similar to what you might use on a wilted lettuce salad or spinach salad."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (298.5 g)
- Calories 589.7
- Total Fat - 31.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 17.9 g
- Cholesterol - 5.3 mg
- Sodium - 63.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 67.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 11.1 g
- Sugars - 31.8 g
- Protein - 9.1 g
- Calcium - 148.8 mg
- Iron - 9.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 3.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Drain and rinse canned beans in a colander.
Step 2
Cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp; set aside. Reserve bacon grease in skillet.
Step 3
Add the chopped onion and garlic to the skillet and cook until light golden.
Step 4
While onion cooks, whisk together the vinegar, oil, cornstarch, mustard and brown sugar.
Step 5
Stir dressing into skillet with the onions and cook, stirring, until mixture thickens. Allow to cool slightly.
Step 6
Place beans in a salad bowl and add crumbled bacon.
Step 7
Stir cooled dressing into beans, cover and chill several hours or overnight.
Tips
No special items needed.