Three bean salad

patchwork_cat

I don't like pulses at all. However I am aware how good for you they are and want to give my family them.

Tesco do tins of three bean salad, but they say you have to cook it. However they do lunch dishes of 3 bean salad in vinagrette. Do you have to cook the tins and let them cool then serve or not. What do you recommend them with - lettuce etc?

HariboJunkie

patchwork_cat wrote: »

I don't like pulses at all. However I am aware how good for you they are and want to give my family them.

Tesco do tins of three bean salad, but they say you have to cook it. However they do lunch dishes of 3 bean salad in vinagrette. Do you have to cook the tins and let them cool then serve or not. What do you recommend them with - lettuce etc?

I haven't seen the tins where you have to cook them but I have bought the non cook ones for OH if I am away. When I'm here I make my own from pre soaked cannelini beans, butter beans and flageolet beans. with some HM vinegarette.

We tend to have bean salad with tuna , mixed leaves, olives and crusty bread for a Saturday lunch or a summer tea with a few sidesalads.

Sambucus_Nigra

If they are in a tin they should be pre-cooked. Which tins are they saying need cooking? Are you sure that's not the dried ones in bags that say that?

patchwork_cat

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

If they are in a tin they should be pre-cooked. Which tins are they saying need cooking? Are you sure that's not the dried ones in bags that say that?

These ones, I was surprised too http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=262489095

bedpotato_2

I have those exact same beans in the cupboard and often eat them cold straight from the tin (drained) by adding them to salads. I was alarmed to read your statement that they must be cooked and thought I must have been doing it wrong all this time, so I went and checked the tin. The tin says nothing about "cooking" them, but refers to "heating" them. That's an entirely different matter.

Any kind of pulses are very nice added to a salad, and make it more filling. What else you decide to put in the salad depends on your own personal likes.

Mrs_Chip

I make a store cupboard bean salad for buffets etc - 1 tin red kidney beas, 1 tin chickpeas, 1 tin sweetcorn, all drained and mixed with a vinagrette into which I add a good tsp of mint sauce from a jar. You can add chopped red pepper or any crisp veg you fancy. I add a spoon of this salad to the plate when having a trad salad, but it's a good side to have with bbq or grilled meat.

patchwork_cat

bedpotato wrote: »

I have those exact same beans in the cupboard and often eat them cold straight from the tin (drained) by adding them to salads. I was alarmed to read your statement that they must be cooked and thought I must have been doing it wrong all this time, so I went and checked the tin. The tin says nothing about "cooking" them, but refers to "heating" them. That's an entirely different matter.

Any kind of pulses are very nice added to a salad, and make it more filling. What else you decide to put in the salad depends on your own personal likes.

I don't have the can was just reading under instructions on website. As to what to add depending on likes - problem is I don't like them!!!

adelight

Those instructions appear to just be to heat the beans up. Most supermarkets do a tinned bean salad which includes green beans and a vinegarette. Get a tin and try mixing it into a cold salad, or hot with some rice. You might grow to like them! Or try bean/lentil dips, bean/lentil curries to disguise the texture and taste a bit.

Sambucus_Nigra

Yes, that's just heating instructions....they don't need cooking.

Do you eat baked beans or refried beans at all?

patchwork_cat

No hate baked beans with a passion and all beans - will eat peas in things now i am older and like caramlised onion hummous, but really can't stand beans at all and struggle with lentils etc. Remember my dad making me sit at the table with some kidney beans on my plate for hours I would gip if I ate one, he went to the loo and my brother took pity and ate them. Don't like butter beans, broad beans either.

I went vegetarian for about 2 years in early twenties and would eat lentils occasionally then, but only occasionally. I would like to as I know how good they are, but just can't.

bedpotato_2

Would you tolerate them if they were mixed in with other things, though? As an example I hate whole olives with a passion but will tolerate them if they're chopped up small and mixed with other stuff.

Also you could consider blending or mashing - you can add them to soups which you then turn into pures, and with the blander ones, you won't even know they're there. Also hoummous is very good.

Is it the actual taste of pulses you don't like, or the texture? It may be that if you make yourself eat them over a period of time you will grow to like them. There are many things I didn't use to like which are now amongst my favourite foods.