Bean salad

Bean salad

Bean salad is a common salad dish composed of various beans (green beans and/or yellow wax beans), cooked 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.

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.