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Italian-Style Arugula and Bean Salad Recipe

Italian-Style Arugula and Bean Salad

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Canned beans are often too mushy for salads, but canned lupini beans have a nice firm texture. For extra fibre you can serve lupini beans in their outer skins (with skins on, 1/2 cup/125 mL serves up 16 g of fibre), but for more refined texture and taste, slip off and discard their skins. Chickpeas or cooked frozen lima beans are also nice in this salad.

Ingredients

6 cups  (1.5 L)  arugula leaves
1 small head Romaine lettuce, shredded
1 can (540 mL) lupini beans, drained, rinsed
2 cups  (500 mL)  cherry tomato, halved
Croutons:
Half loaf crusty bread, such as ciabatta
1/3 cup  (75 mL)  extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp  (2 mL)  black pepper
Pinch salt
3/4 cups  (175 mL)  finely grated Romano cheese
Balsamic Dressing:
Half clove garlic, pressed or minced
2 anchovy fillets, minced, or 1/4 tsp/1 mL salt
3 tbsp  (45 mL)  minced red onion
Pinch black pepper
2 tbsp  (30 mL)  balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp  (15 mL)  red wine vinegar
Dash hot pepper sauce
1/4 cup  (60 mL)  extra-virgin olive oil

Preparation

Croutons: Cut bread into 1-inch/2.5 cm cubes; transfer to large bowl. Add oil, pepper and salt; toss to coat. Spread onto rimmed baking sheet; bake in centre of 400F/200C oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Sprinkle on cheese and toss to coat. Bake for 1 more minute; toss again. Let cool.

Balsamic Dressing: Whisk together garlic, anchovies, onion, pepper, balsamic and wine vinegars and hot pepper sauce; whisk in oil. Let stand for at least 10 minutes; whisk before using.

In salad bowl, toss together arugula, lettuce, beans, tomatoes and Balsamic Dressing. Top with Croutons, scraping any cheese from pan into bowl, and lightly toss.

Makes 4 servings.

Serving(s)
4
Nutritional Information
Per serving: about
Calories 778
Protein 29 g
Fat (total) 45 g
Sat. Fat 9 g
Carbohydrate 67 g
Fibre 19 g
Cholesterol 25 mg
Sodium 1.59 mg
Calcium 55 % RDI
Iron 48 % RDI
Vitamin A 97 % RDI
Vitamin C 85 % RDI
Folate 167 % RDI

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Source

Homemakers Magazine: June 2008

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