Make Healthy & Scrumptious Salads - Four Bean Salad

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Four Bean Salad

Nutritious bean salad.

Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes

Servings: 4

Preparation Time: 30-40 minutes

Category: Veg

Ingredients

•White cow beans (chowli/lobia), soaked 1/4 cup

•Red kidney beans (rajma), soaked 1/4 cup

•Green gram (sabut moong), soaked 1/4 cup

•Salt to taste

•French beans, 1/4 inch pieces 10

•Lemon juice 3 tablespoons

•Fresh coriander leaves, chopped 1/2 medium bunch

•Fresh mint leaves, chopped 1/4 medium bunch

•Green chillies, chopped 2

•Chaat masala 11/2 teaspoons

•Onion, 1/4 inch pieces 1 medium

Method

Boil the three soaked beans separately in one cup of salted water each till soft. Drain and let them cool. Boil French beans in one cup of salted boiling water till done. Drain immediately (you may reserve the cooking liquid for some other recipe) and refresh with cold water. Dilute lemon juice with equal amount of water. Stir in chopped coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chilies and chaat masala. Shake well and refrigerate the dressing for at least an hour. Mix all the cooked beans with diced onion and add the dressing. Toss the salad to evenly mix the dressing and serve cold.

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