Bean salad is mainly composed of cooked pole beans (green beans and/or yellow wax beans), cooked garbonzo beans, cooked kidney beans and sliced or diced fresh onions, then are marinaded in an oil/vinagar vinaigrette, sometimes sweetened with sugar. Salads of this type are often used for picnics and outings, since they require little refrigeration. Green bean plant Green beans are the immature pods of any kind of bean when eaten immature as a vegetable. ... Binomial name Cicer arietinum L. The chickpea, garbanzo bean or bengal gram (Cicer arietinum) is an edible pulse of the Leguminosae or Fabaceae family, subfamily Faboideae or Papilionoideae. ... Binomial name Phaseolus vulgaris L. The common bean is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean, popular both dry and as a green bean. ... For the parody newspaper, see The Onion. ... The word vinaigrette (from the French language) can refer to: An emulsion of vinegar (or sometimes lemon juice) and vegetable oil, often flavored with herbs, spices, and other ingredients. ...