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Name: French bean salad with vinaigrette
Prep time: 28 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 people
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 750 g green beans; coarse salt; 1 shallot; 3 tablespoons herbs of your choice; 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)

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French bean salad with vinaigrette

A very simple recipe for a salad of green (or yellow) French beans: The beans are boiled first, then thoroughly drained and served mixed with herbs, chopped shallot and a good vinaigrette (french dressing).

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Last modified on: October 27^th 2016

For 6 people, you will need:

1 750 g green beans
2 coarse salt
3 1 shallot
4 3 tablespoons herbs of your choice
5 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
Total weight: 895 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
28 min.	7 min.	35 min.

Preservation:

A few hours in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

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Stage 1

15 min.

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Prepare and rinse 750 g green beans.

Stage 2

2 min.

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It isn't essential, but the beans are much more pleasant to eat and cook more rapidly if they are cut up.

Stage 3

7 min.

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Tip the beans into a large pan of boiling salted water and cook until tender.

Stage 4

2 min.

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Drain them...

Stage 5

2 min.

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..and dry thoroughly (you can also use a salad spinner for this).

It is most important for the beans to be "dry", otherwise they will release water once in the salad bowl and ruin the vinaigrette.

Stage 6

4 min.

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Prepare 1 shallot and chop finely.

Chop the herbs (parsley shown here).

Stage 7

1 min.

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Put the beans, shallot and and herbs into a salad bowl...

Stage 8

2 min.

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...add 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette), mix well and it's ready.

Remarks

A variant is to mix in the beans while they are still hot (well drained, of course) for a delicious warm brean salad.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 people : 9.58 €
Per person : 1.60 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Shallot: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sausage and lentils "en cocotte", Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Mushroom velouté, Chicken and mushroom pie, Beurre blanc sauce, ... All

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