White Bean Salad with Toasted Almonds and Blue Cheese

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2012

Canned beans are a convenient shortcut, but we hoped to fool eaters into thinking we'd spent hours in the kitchen.

SERVES 6

TIME 30 minutes, plus 40 minutes resting

White Bean Salad with Toasted Almonds and Blue Cheese

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We take ordinary canned beans and turn them into the rightful stars of this salad. The key is steeping the beans in a garlicky broth first. This affords us time to tame our raw shallots in vinegar, and pull together the other ingredients. O...

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