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Salad with red canned beans and crackers

Red Bean and Crouton Salad

Simple, quick, no mayonnaise, made from ordinary ingredients! This bean and crouton salad is made from just three ingredients, yet comes out hearty and very tasty. Since it uses canned beans, it takes very little time to make.

Maria

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Salad with red canned beans and crackers

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Canned beans (red)

200

Croutons

100

Cucumbers

Dill (3-4 sprigs)

Sour cream

Salt

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 22 % 7 g

Fats 6 % 2 g

Carbohydrates 72 % 23 g

139 kcal

GI: 4 / 0 / 96

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

How do you make a salad with canned beans and croutons? Gather the ingredients. This uses canned beans, but if you like, you can use fresh ones and boil them yourself first. Rye croutons with no added flavorings work best. You can also make them yourself.
Step 2:

Tip the beans into a colander and rinse them with water. Leave them to drain in the colander.
Step 3:

Wash the cucumber, dry it, and cut it into sticks.
Step 4:

Wash the dill, dry it, and chop it finely.
Step 5:

Put the canned beans, cucumber, and croutons in a salad bowl. If you're not serving the salad right away, it's better to add the croutons just before serving, or they'll get soggy and the salad will lose all its crunch.
Step 6:

Salt the salad to taste and dress it with sour cream. You can use mayonnaise instead of sour cream, but then the salad's calorie count will go up.
Step 7:

Mix everything. Garnish the finished salad with a sprig of dill and serve. Enjoy!

You can also make this salad with canned white beans or green string beans. You can use boiled beans instead of canned. Green beans don't take long to cook, but red or white beans have to be soaked for 6-8 hours first and then boiled in salted water until tender (about 1 hour). You can make the salad without cucumbers - just croutons and beans. But with fresh cucumber the salad is fresher. Bean salads are quite hearty. You can also add boiled eggs or cooked sausage. Beans were once considered food for the poor. In protein content and many other components they're very close to meat, which is why they were a staple for families who couldn't afford it. Times have changed, and the benefits of beans have made them sought-after for everyone. Nutritionists rank beans among the 10 healthiest foods in the world. This legume is a real treasure trove of vitamins, amino acids, and minerals - in different ratios depending on the variety. Canned beans keep all the nutrients, and this method greatly simplifies eating them. While raw beans need long soaking and boiling, canned ones just need to be bought and opened.
If the cucumber skin isn't tough, damaged, or bitter, you don't need to peel it.
The salad looks neat and pretty if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (cubes, for example).
You can replace the sour cream with plain yogurt with no additives. You can also use mayonnaise as the dressing - it's better to make it yourself, which is tastier and better for you. See some interesting homemade mayonnaise recipes here.