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Grandma's salad

This salad harks back to the ones French grandmas used to make: green beans and potatoes (preferably still warm) mixed with diced cheese, parsley and chopped onion in a good vinaigrette dressing.

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Last modified on: September 29^th 2021

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For 2 people, you will need:

1 12.3 oz green beans
2 2 potatoes
3 ½ red onion
4 ½ bunch parsley
5 0.9 oz Comté cheese
6 3 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
24 min.	30 min.	54 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 1 min.

Prepare 12.3 oz green beans and reserve.

Stage 2 - 30 min.

Plunge 2 potatoes into the same cooking water as the beans (there are no small savings) and cook until tender.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Meanwhile, prepare ½ red onion and chop finely.

Chop ½ bunch parsley.

Put into a salad bowl.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Dice 0.9 oz Comté cheese.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

Add to the bowl.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Cut the green beans into short lengths...

Stage 7 - 1 min.

..and add to the bowl.

Stage 8 - 4 min.

Once the potatoes are cooked, peel them.

Stage 9 - 2 min.

Slice and add to the bowl.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Add 3 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette), mix well and your "grandma's" salad is ready.

Remarks

It's important to try and make this a warm salad, with both the beans and potatoes still warm from cooking, served without delay.

If you don't have Comté cheese, any other hard-paste cheese you like will do fine.

Keeping

Best eaten immediately but will keep in the fridge for later.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
824 Kcal or 3,450 Kj	23 gr	92 gr	40 gr
41 %	9 %	9 %	6 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
103 Kcal or 431 Kj	3 gr	11 gr	5 gr
5 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
412 Kcal or 1,725 Kj	12 gr	46 gr	20 gr
21 %	5 %	4 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Sulfites, Mustard

How much will it cost?

For 2 people : 2.41 €
Per person : 1.21 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Green beans: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Green beans with tomato cream sauce, Green bean and potato salad with paprika, Macédoine of vegetables, French bean salad with vinaigrette , Minestrone, ... All
	Comté cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fried cheese toasties with avocado, Small cheese and bacon rolls , Comtoise endive salad, Comtoise endive salad, Salmon and spinach quiche, ... All
	French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Bistro-style cabbage salad, Rice and fresh spinach salad, Warm autumn salad, Mixed tomato salad, Prawn salad with a crunch, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Baked potoatoes with herb butter or cream , Fillets of sole Dieppoise, Grated potato cakes, Hot box cheese , Gratin Dauphinois, ... All

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