Recipe - Black Bean - Cucumber Salad

350 g Black beans
2 lg Cucumbers
1 teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Salt
One half dl White wine vinegar
1 Red onion
1 Yellow bell pepper
Fresh thyme twigs

1. Soak beans at least 4 hours. Drain. 2. Cook the beans in lightly
salted water with some fresh thyme
twigs Use low heath so that the beans will not turn mushy.
Rinse the beans in cold water after cooking. 3. Cut out the ends of the
cucumbers. Take out the seeds from
one of the cucumbers. Put the scraped seeds and the another
cucumber to food processor. Add 1 tsp salt and the vinegar. 4. Cut the
bell pepper, red onion and the cucumer with seeds
taken off to make small cubicles. 5. Add One half tsp salt to the cucumber
cubicles, wait the fluid
come out and dry. 6. Mix the cold beans, cucumber mix and the cubicles.
Taste
and add salt if needed.
Recipe By : Allt om mat 16/96

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #290

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:43:26 GMT

From: Eija Sipila sipika@vsonic.fi

NOTES : This was part of the buffet menu for 12 persons. It was very nice
looking

at the picture. Original name was black bean gazpacho but it is a salad,

not soup.