Simple Summer Salad

What could be simpler than chopping up some fresh garden vegetables with basil and a little vinegar and agave marinade for a refreshing meal on a sunny summer evening?  If you still have basil, here is a quick and delicious way to use it up.  This is a very flexible "use what you have" recipe.  Every vegetable in here is replaceable with whatever you have or like - tomatoes, red onion, zucchini you name it.







Simple Summer Salad

1 can cannellini beans (white kidney beans), drained and rinsed

3 scallions, chopped

2 sweet banana peppers, seeded and chopped

1/2 cucumber, chopped

1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil

3 large garlic cloves, minced

1/2 cup red wine vinegar

1 Tbs agave nectar

salt and pepper to taste

Place all vegetables in a medium to large bowl.  Drizzle vinegar and agave over the vegetables and add a little salt and pepper.  Stir to combine everything.  This salad is even better after it has marinated for a few hours.