# Dense Bean Salad

This is a dense salad packed with veggies, tons of protein, and a vinegar-based dressing that lasts the entire week.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Salad
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 shallot
- flat-leaf parsley
- 2 bell peppers
- 4 fresh basil leaves
- 1 container cherry tomatoes
- 1 package pepperoni
- 0.5 pound smoked chipotle chicken
- sun-dried tomato oil
- garlic olive oil
- red wine vinegar
- pizza seasoning
- sea salt
- mustard
- sun-dried tomatoes
- artichoke hearts
- 1 can white beans
- 1 can chickpeas
- 1 container mini mozzarella balls

## Instructions

1. Pour dressing into a large wooden bowl with some of the salad ingredients.
2. Mix the salad ingredients in the large wooden bowl using two wooden spoons.
3. Place the salad into a deli container and seal it.
4. Scoop salad into a green tortilla wrap.
5. Hold the green tortilla wrap with salad inside.
6. Chop a shallot on a wooden cutting board.
7. Chop some flat-leaf parsley on a wooden cutting board.
8. Cut and dice a yellow bell pepper on a wooden cutting board.
9. Cut and dice an orange bell pepper on a wooden cutting board.
10. Add chopped bell peppers to the large wooden bowl.
11. Chop fresh basil leaves on a wooden cutting board.
12. Rinse cherry tomatoes in a strainer.
13. Cut cherry tomatoes in half on a wooden cutting board.
14. Add chopped cherry tomatoes to the large wooden bowl.
15. Chop pepperoni on a wooden cutting board.
16. Add chopped pepperoni to the large wooden bowl.
17. Chop smoked chipotle chicken on a wooden cutting board.
18. Add chopped chicken to the large wooden bowl.
19. Pour sun-dried tomato oil into a plastic container.
20. Chop sun-dried tomatoes on a wooden cutting board.
21. Add chopped sun-dried tomatoes to the large wooden bowl.
22. Chop artichoke hearts on a wooden cutting board.
23. Open a can of chickpeas.
24. Open a can of white kidney beans.
25. Open a container of mini mozzarella balls.
26. Pour and rinse white beans in a strainer under running water.
27. Pour and rinse chickpeas in a strainer under running water.
28. Add rinsed white beans and chickpeas to the large wooden bowl.
29. Pour garlic olive oil into the plastic container with sun-dried tomato oil.
30. Pour red wine vinegar into a measuring cup and then into the plastic container.
31. Add pizza seasoning to the plastic container.
32. Add sea salt to the plastic container.
33. Add mustard to the plastic container.
34. Mix the dressing ingredients in the plastic container using a milk frother until creamy.
35. Pour the creamy dressing over the salad ingredients in the large wooden bowl.
36. Toss all ingredients together in the large wooden bowl until well combined.
37. Scoop the finished salad into deli containers for meal prep.
38. Close the deli containers.

## Equipment

- large wooden bowl
- cutting board
- knife
- strainer
- can opener
- milk frother
- deli containers

## Tips

- The milk frother hack is a great way to make super creamy dressings.
- Chicken is a really dry meat and it soaks up the dressing well.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hmo5xr/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/8dd1a741-72a3-4fba-845f-aedbd95af268
- Extracted: 2025-07-13

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