italian dense bean salad

• 1 cancanned garbanzo beans (chickpeas) — 15 oz
• 1 cancanned white beans (we use cannellini) — 15 oz
• 4–5 ozsalami — diced, or spicy salami or combination of deli turkey, ham, and salami, optional
• 1large red bell pepper — diced
• ¼ cuppepperoncini — roughly chopped
• ¼ cupred onion — diced
• ½ cupfresh basil
• 6 ozmozzarella pearls

Dressing

• ⅓ cupitalian dressing — homemade or store-bought
• 1large clove garlic — minced
• 1 tbspdried oregano
• ½ tspred pepper flakes — optional
• 1 tspsalt
• 1 tbsplemon juice