White Bean Salad

Name: White Bean Salad
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/3 cup, extra virgin olive oil; 4 , garlic cloves, peeled and smashed; , Salt and pepper; 3 (15-ounce) cans, cannellini beans, rinsed; 1/4 cup, sherry vinegar; 1 , shallot, minced; 1 , red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1/4-inch pieces; 1/2 cup chopped, fresh parsley; 1/4 cup chopped, fresh chives

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2012

Canned beans are a convenient shortcut, but we hoped to fool eaters into thinking we'd spent hours in the kitchen.

SERVES6

TIME25 minutes, plus 40 minutes resting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We take ordinary canned beans and turn them into the rightful stars of this salad. The key is steeping the beans in a garlicky broth first. This affords us time to tame our raw shallots in vinegar, and pull together the other ingredients. O...

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