The phrase "a bean salad" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a type of salad that primarily consists of beans as a main ingredient.
Example: "For lunch, I decided to make a refreshing a bean salad with black beans, kidney beans, and a zesty dressing."
Alternatives: "a legume salad" or "a salad with beans".
Cesare Casella, the chef at Beppe, serves a bean salad, brightened with red-wine vinegar and marjoram.
You could try having fish for your dinner rather than sausages, or choosing to have a bean salad for lunch over a BLT".
I used almonds instead and cut the cauliflower into tiny little trees so that each bite would be more like a bean salad with little, soft pieces of cauliflower, a dose of nut-flavored butter, and crunchy slivers of almond.
Starters included fried wontons stuffed with eggplant, well conceived and executed, with a bean salad, an odd but good pairing; and a duck confit and potato salad with a slew of herbs that was a knockout.
We load our table for two with pickles, a cheese, chilli and tomato dip and a bean salad.
We had asparagus, just then in season, cooked small onions, marinated mushrooms and a bean salad I just could not keep my hands off.
Other delightful openers were the loosely packed lump crab cake atop a cranberry bean salad with a lip-smacking rémoulade; a wonderful plate of paper-thin sliced prosciutto crowned with shaved cheese, a fresh corn and radish salad and a splash of truffle oil; and tiny smoked salmon open-face sandwiches with toast points and crème fraîche.
South American accents, in particular, are harmonious with the mixed flavors in a combination grill: papaya in a spinach salad, hearts of palm in a black bean salad, mangoes in an upside-down cake.
The dressing on a wax bean salad, allegedly a tahini-soy vinaigrette, made no impression, and curls of raw hamachi with diced apples didn't rise above routine.
Among recent listings were fish tacos, paired with a black bean salad ($8), a Jamaican jerk chicken wrap ($9) and California burritos, stuffed with either chicken or pork ($8).
Slightly away from downtown, in the gentrified old North End, Scrumptious, 139 North Champlain Street, (802) 864-9220, in a bright and cheerful Victorian building, serves bold American food: cold cucumber soup, excellent hummus, a savory bean salad and a good spinach quiche.
