I learned in Italy to wash canned beans, drain all the mucus, enjoy the exquisite taste of salad.

On November 28, Orthodox believers began the Nativity Fast, popularly called the Forty-Century or Filippov. For those of our readers who intend to observe it, we offer a lean, but hearty and very tasty salad of beans and cucumbers. It has no meat or eggs, and for the preparation of mayonnaise uses aquafaba - a thick brine from canned beans or other legumes.



Bean and cucumber salad Ingredients

• 300g canned beans (1 can)
• 250g pickles
• 130g red onion
• 50g parsley

Ingredients for marinade

• 1 tsp sugar
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 100ml boiling water

Ingredients for mayonnaise from aquafaba

• 100g aquafaba (contents of 1 can of beans)
• 150 ml of refined oil
• 1 tsp mustard
• 0.5 tsp sugar
• pinch
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• salt and black pepper to taste

Preparation

1. Cut the bow with thin feathers.
   
   
   
2. To make the onion even more juicy and tasty, it must be marinated.
3. Prepare the marinade. To do this, add sugar, salt and 100 ml of boiling water to the bowl. Stir until the sugar and salt dissolve.
4. Send the chopped onions to the hot marinade.
   
   
   
5. Pour the brine from the beans into a separate container. Aquafaba can form a foam very similar to that of egg whites. Therefore, it can be safely used as a substitute for eggs in baking, as well as the basis for dietary mayonnaise. How to do this, we told in a separate article.
6. Put the beans in the salad.
   
   
   
7. Cut the pickles in thin circles.
   
   
   
8. Cut and add parsley to the salad.
9. Throw pickled onions on the sieve.
10. Send cucumbers and onions to the salad bowl.
    
    
    
11. Fill it with aquafaba mayonnaise. It is not so fat, but much tastier and harmless store. And for cooking salads in the post - just the ideal option.
    
    
    
12. The combination of pickled onions and cucumbers, delicate white beans, fragrant fresh parsley and delicious homemade sauce will not leave you indifferent. Bon appetit and new culinary discoveries!
    
    
    

Lenten salad with beans, potatoes, carrots and cucumbers is an excellent substitute for olives. Mayonnaise is removed, and instead of meat - beans! Here is a snack that will please everyone!