 | Those who love bean salads, love them. Many people don't, though, because they've had one too many bean salads foisted on them that just have -- well, beans in them.
So, it's worth it to stick a fancy name on this one (doesn't Cannellini sound more exciting than its synonym, White Kidney Beans?), and to do the extra futzing with roasting the tomatoes, shaving the Parmesan and buying the fresh rosemary even just for the small amount needed here.
It may change their minds about what bean salads can taste like -- and our minds about how bean salads can be made.
If you live in the UK, you can cheat and buy your fresh parmesan already shaved at some grocery stores.
If you prefer to cook up your own White Kidney Beans, you'll want to cook up 1 cup (8 oz/ 225g) of dried White Kidney Beans to end up with 3 cups (18 oz / 500g) of cooked, drained beans.
Instead of cherry tomatoes, you can use grape tomatoes, or regular size tomatoes cut in half, then each half quartered, then each quarter cut in half.
Ingredients
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Directions
Cooking at: 400 F / 200 C / Gas Mark 6
Start your oven heating.
Peel and chop the onion; set aside.
Shave the Parmesan; set aside covered under a bowl or plastic wrap.
Chop the rosemary, and peel and chop the garlic; set aside together.
Cut cherry tomatoes in half, and put in a medium-sized bowl. Toss gently with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, and a bit of salt and pepper. Arrange the tomatoes cut side up on a cookie sheet, and roast in the oven for 15 minutes. Remove from oven; set aside.
While the tomatoes are in the oven, heat 3 tablespoons of the oil in a large frying pan. Add the garlic, rosemary and half the onion, and cook over a gentle heat until the onion is soft. Add the beans and the vinegar, stirring frequently (and gently) until the beans are warmed through.
Remove from heat, tip into the bowl that you had tossed the tomatoes in, or a fancier serving bowl. Fold in the remaining chopped onion, then arrange the roasted tomatoes on top, then the Parmesan shavings on top of that. If you wish, you can garnish with a tidge more chopped fresh rosemary.
See Also
Salads
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