{"id":451,"date":"2011-09-03T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=451"},"modified":"2016-04-24T04:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T04:07:21","slug":"four-bean-raisin-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/four-bean-raisin-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Bean Raisin Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is adapted from a recipe from Arizona Republic published July 9, 2010. It was called Chickpea and Raisin Salad.\u00a0 I thought that it could be adapted to an unusual four-bean salad by substituting other beans for all those chickpeas.\u00a0 Here is my adaptation of <em>their<\/em> recipe, and my altered recipe which creates this Four Bean Raisin Salad side dish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGREDIENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 cans (15.5 oz each) chickpeas<\/li>\n<li>1 CU raisins (golden raisins would be my choice)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 CU Red Wine Vinegar<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 CU fresh cilantro (rinsed and lightly chopped)<\/li>\n<li>4 scallions, thinly sliced<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 CU extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 CU sesame oil<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp ground cumin<\/li>\n<li>salt and pepper to taste (scant)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STEP BY STEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a small saucepan, combine raisins, vinegar and sugar<\/li>\n<li>Bring to simmer, then remove from heat to cool<\/li>\n<li>Toss chickpeas, cilantro, scallions and raisins with EVOO, cumin , salt and pepper<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Refrigerate for about two hours before serving to allow flavors to meld<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>MY ADAPTATIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, I&#8217;ve already modified <em>their<\/em> recipe, but I&#8217;ll not tell you where.<\/li>\n<li>I think that a Vidalia onion, VERY thinly sliced and tossed in the red vinegar before combining would be good.<\/li>\n<li>Rather than three cans of chickpeas, use one of chickpeas, one of red beans, one of wax beans and one of green beans.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, I know that ends up being four cans, but go with it&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is adapted from a recipe from Arizona Republic published July 9, 2010. It was called Chickpea and Raisin Salad.\u00a0 I thought that it could be adapted to an unusual four-bean salad by substituting other beans for all those chickpeas.\u00a0 Here is my adaptation of their recipe, and my altered recipe which creates this Four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/four-bean-raisin-salad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four Bean Raisin Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-appetizers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}