Summer Vegetables, Butter Beans, and Basil

Name: Summer Vegetables, Butter Beans, and Basil
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients: 2 to 3 teaspoons red wine vinegar; 3 to 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; 1 tablespoon capers, rinsed; salt; 12 peppercorns; 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped; 12 small leaves of salad savoy, radicchio, or red oak leaf lettuce; 12 small leaves of salad savoy, radicchio, or red oak leaf lettuce; 12 small leaves of salad savoy, radicchio, or red oak leaf lettuce; 2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced; 1 15-ounce can (1½ cups) butter beans or chick-peas, rinsed; 1 15-ounce can (1½ cups) butter beans or chick-peas, rinsed; 12 basil leaves, mixed varieties or whatever kind is available, cut into ribbons; 12 black Greek or Italian olives, stoned and halved; 1 small onion or ½ bunch scallions; 1 small onion or ½ bunch scallions; 2 ripe but firm tomatoes or a handful of small tomatoes, like yellow pear tomatoes or Sweet 100s; 2 ripe but firm tomatoes or a handful of small tomatoes, like yellow pear tomatoes or Sweet 100s; 2 ripe but firm tomatoes or a handful of small tomatoes, like yellow pear tomatoes or Sweet 100s; 2 ripe but firm tomatoes or a handful of small tomatoes, like yellow pear tomatoes or Sweet 100s; 2 ripe but firm tomatoes or a handful of small tomatoes, like yellow pear tomatoes or Sweet 100s; 12 black Greek or Italian olives, stoned and halved; ½ cucumber; 1 small red bell pepper; 1 small yellow bell pepper; 1 small green bell pepper

Preparation info

Makes
4 to 6
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Savory Way

By Deborah Madison

Published 1990

About

This can easily be a main-course salad for a summer lunch or dinner. The summer produce is bright and colorful, and there’s a pleasing range of textures, from the crisp peppers to the soft butter beans. Anything that comes fresh from a garden would make it that much better—a few bush beans, some radishes or peas, a fresh red onion. The small leaves of purple salad savoy (ornamental kale), shredded radicchio, or small leaves of red lettuces all make beautiful garnishes.

The salad can

Ingredients

Main course
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Summer

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