Easy Four Bean salad Recipe-Butter Your Biscuit (2024)

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This homemade dressing is so easy and adjustable, if you want it a little less tangy just add more sugar. I used canned green beans but you could use fresh if you want. Make this over the weekend and enjoy it all week long! It's a great dish that only gets better the longer it sits.

Why this recipe works

This classic bean salad is a refreshing and easy side dish, that can be made ahead of time. Perfect for any barbecue or potluck like my Grilled Shrimp Cobb Salad. It makes a great side dish to almost any meal like my Grilled Teriyaki Steak, or my Grilled Soy Sauce Chicken.

Ingredients needed for this recipe

Ingredients Notes

• Sugar- You can add more or less according to your taste.
• Apple cider vinegar-White vinegar can be used in a pinch.
• Green Beans-Canned or fresh works here.
• Yellow Wax Beans-If you can't find these just use another can of green beans.
• Kidney beans-Both dark red kidney beans and light red are fine.
• Garbanzo beans-Also is known as chickpeas and a great addition to this salad.
• Red Onions- Or white onions if you prefer.
• Pimentos- Or a finely diced red bell pepper.

How to make this Four Bean Salad

• Step 1-In a small bowl mix all the dressing ingredients together until combined.
• Step 2-Add the drained beans and other ingredients to a large salad bowl.

• Step 3-Toss the bean mixture with the zesty dressing.
• Step 4-Chill and serve!

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1- 14.5 oz can red kidney beans
• 1- 14.5 oz can garbanzo beans
• 1- 15 oz can green beans
• 1- 15 oz can wax beans
• 1/2 red onion sliced
• 1- 2 oz jar diced pimentos
• 1/2 cup fresh parsley chopped

• In a small bowl whisk together sugar, vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper and set aside.

• Drain and rinse all the canned beans and pimentos and place them in a large bowl. Add onion, parsley, and dressing and mix until combined.

• Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours, stirring occasionally.

Sugar- You can add more or less according to your taste.

Yellow Wax Beans-If you can't find these just use another can of green beans.

Pimentos- Or a finely diced red bell pepper.