Olga's Four Bean Salad

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (15 ounce) can green beans (drained)
• 1 (15 ounce) can yellow wax beans (drained)
• 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans (drained)
• 1 (15 ounce) can red kidney beans (drained)
• 1 (15 ounce) can straw mushrooms (or any kind of mushrooms, drained*)
• 1 (15 ounce) can pickled beets (coarsely chopped, drained)
• 1/2 large purple onion (chopped)
• 15 gherkins (chopped)
• 1/2 cup sugar (or to taste. i use a 1/4 cup.)
• 1/2 cup cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup oil
• salt and pepper (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 drain all the liquids from all six cans.
• 2 in a very large bowl, combine all the beans, mushrooms, chopped beets, chopped onion and chopped gherkins.
• 3 in a separate container, mix the sugar, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper. i use a recycled spaghetti sauce jar just for this purpose and just shake it all up.
• 4 pour dressing over the bean mixture and toss well.
• 5 cover and refrigerate for at least overnight, if you can wait. i usually can't.
• 6 * straw mushrooms are found in the asian section of the grocery store.