Ensalada guanajuato (five bean salad guanajua
Yield: 6 Servings
Ingredients:
- 1 c Drained OR canned cooked -pinto beans
- 1 c Drained cooked black beans
- 1 cn (8-3/4 oz) garbanzo beans -drained
- 1 cn (8 oz) cut green beans -drained
- 1 c Drained canned wax beans
- 1/2 Green pepper cut in thin -strips
- 1/4 Red onion thinly sliced
- 6 tb Vegetable oil
- 3 tb Vinegar [I increased vinegar -by 50 percent. K.B.]
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1/4 ts Dried leaf oregano crushed
- 1/8 ts Garlic powder Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 Tomato chopped drained
- 3 tb Mayonnaise
Instructions:
If cooking your own pinto and black beans cook until firm-tender and not mushy. Combine pinto beans black beansm garbanzo beans green beans and wax beans in a large bowl. Add green pepper and red onion. In a small bowl mix oil vinegar salt oregano garlic powder and black pepper to taste. Pour over salad and toss gently but thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Just before serving add tomatoes and mayonnaise. Toss until well blended. Makes 6 to 8 servings. From: MEXICAN COOKERY by Barbara Hansen HP Books Tucson 1980. ISBN 0-89586-038-4 Shared by: Karin Brewer Cooking Echo 5/93



