Summer Butter Bean Salad with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 6 to 8 servings
  • Total: 15 min
  • Active: 15 min
Are you wondering what butter beans are? They’re what we call lima beans in the South because of their creamy, buttery texture. For this salad, I thought about succotash, a classic Soul Food dish made with butter beans, fresh corn and tomatoes, then I added a few more fresh summer veggies and herbs, plus a spicy, tangy vinaigrette. You really could add anything else from your garden or the farmers’ market, like zucchini, bell peppers or snap peas—go ahead and make it your own!
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Ingredients

Hot Sauce Vinaigrette:

1/4 cup hot sauce

2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 

1 tablespoon honey 

1 1/2 teaspoons yellow mustard 

1 clove garlic, minced 

1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil 

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 

Salad:

One 16-ounce package frozen butter beans or baby lima beans, cooked until just tender and cooled

1 cup fresh or frozen corn kernels, cooked until just tender and cooled 

2 mini cucumbers, diced 

1/2 cup finely chopped red onion 

1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes, halved 

2 tablespoons sliced fresh basil leaves

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper  

Directions

  1. For the hot sauce vinaigrette: Put the hot sauce, vinegar, honey, mustard, garlic, oil and salt and pepper to taste in a lidded jar. Seal the jar and shake to combine. Set aside.
  2. For the salad: In a large bowl, combine the butter beans, corn kernels, cucumber, red onion, tomatoes and basil. Toss to combine. Start by adding 1/2 cup vinaigrette and gently stir to combine. Add more vinaigrette as desired. Season to taste with salt and pepper. 

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Greg Johnson

This was delicious! I used Olive oil and Dijon mustard instead and it was perfect… definitely going to make this on a regular basis

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