Looking for a salad that’s easy to make, tastes great, and is especially perfect for pot-lucks or the upcoming summer grilling season? This marinated vegetable salad is one of my family’s favorites! The name of this salad is a bit of a mystery. The marinade is much like three-bean salad or any number of other marinated vegetable salads, so I went with that for a generic name. Ironically, I’ve always known it as “Winter Salad”–that’s the recipe name on my mom & grandma’s recipe card. But, we usually only eat it in the summer, so it seems a bit of a misnomer. Others apparently know it as “shoepeg corn salad” or “LeSueur pea salad”. But, no matter what you call it, it’s delish! I love that it keeps for quite a while in the fridge and it’s always a hit when I bring it to gatherings! 🙂

Marinated Vegetable Salad

(The recipe below is technically a double-batch…the size I make for pot-lucks, grilling get-togethers, etc.)

Ingredients:

2 cans tiny peas (Le Sueur Brand)

2 cans white shoepeg corn

2 cans french style green beans

1 C (or more) celery – chopped

1/2 C (or more) *yellow bell pepper – chopped

1 or 2 small jar(s) pimento

4 to 6 green onions & tops – chopped

1 C vinegar

2/3 C oil

3/4 C sugar

salt & pepper to taste

*Note – the original recipe calls for green bell pepper, but no one in my family likes it. We’ve always made it with yellow or orange bell pepper. I think it tastes better & it prettier that way! 🙂

Directions:

-Drain all canned vegetables. Mix all vegetables together in a bowl. In separate bowl, make marinade–combine vinegar, oil, sugar, and salt & pepper. Pour marinade over vegetables. Combine well. Then, chill and serve. *Note–the taste is usually better if you can prepare ahead of time and let chill overnight. As with most marinated salads, this keeps well in the fridge for more than a week! What are YOUR favorite summer salads?

Here are some of our other summer favorites:

Vinegar Cucumber Salad

Ambrosia Salad

Apple Snickers Salad Trifle