Recipe - Black Bean Gazpacho

3 cup Chopped, peeled, and seeded
Tomatoes
1 12oz. can (1One half cups) hot
Style vegetable juice
Cocktail
1 cup Cubed fully cooked ham
1 15oz. can black beans or
Garbanzo beans, rinsed and
Drained
One half cup Chopped seeded cucumber,
Yellow summer squash, and/or
Zucchini
One half cup Chopped green or yellow
Sweet pepper
One fourth cup Thinly cut or sliced up green onion
2 tablespoon Italian salad dressing
Bottled hot pepper sauce
(optional)

IN A LARGE MIXING BOWL comine tomatoes, juice, ham, beans, cucumber or
squash, chopped pepper, green onion, and dressing. Cover and chill for 2 to
24 hours. If desired, serve with bottled hot pepper sauce.

Makes 4 maindish servings.

Nutrition facts per serving: 201 cal., 6 g total fat (1 g sat. fat), 11 mg
chol., 1,247 mg sodium, 25 g carbo., 8 g fiber, 17 g pro. Daily Value: 17%
vit. A, 82% vit. C, 8% calcium, 19% iron.

SOURCE: BETTER HOMES AND GARDEN, July 1993

Shared by Cate Vanicek

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