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Grandma's salad

Name: Grandma's salad
Prep time: 24 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 54 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 700 g green beans; 4 potatoes; 1 red onion; 1 bunch parsley; 50 g Comté cheese; 5 tablespoons french dressing (vinaigrette)

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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Duration

55 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 31^th 2026

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 700 g green beans
2 4 potatoes
3 1 red onion
4 1 bunch parsley
5 50 g Comté cheese
6 5 tablespoons french dressing (vinaigrette)
Total weight: 1,590 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

25 min.

Cooking

30 min.

All in all

55 min.

Preparation 25 min.

Cooking 30 min.

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Step-by-step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 1 min.

Prepare 700 g green beans and reserve.

Step 2 - ⌛ 30 min.

Plunge 4 potatoes into the same cooking water as the beans (there are no small savings) and cook until tender.

Step 3 - ⌛ 5 min.

Meanwhile, prepare 1 red onion and chop finely.

Chop 1 bunch parsley.

Put into a salad bowl.

Step 4 - ⌛ 3 min.

Dice 50 g Comté cheese.

Step 5 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add to the bowl.

Step 6 - ⌛ 5 min.

Cut the green beans into short lengths...

Step 7 - ⌛ 1 min.

..and add to the bowl.

Step 8 - ⌛ 4 min.

Once the potatoes are cooked, peel them.

Step 9 - ⌛ 2 min.

Slice and add to the bowl.

Step 10 - ⌛ 2 min.

Add 5 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: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	3 g RDI=5 %	12 g RDI=4 %	3 g RDI=4 %	87 kcal RDI=4 %	363 kJ RDI=4 %
Per person	12 g RDI=18 %	46 g RDI=17 %	13 g RDI=17 %	344 kcal RDI=17 %	1,442 kJ RDI=17 %
Whole recipe	47 g RDI=72 %	185 g RDI=70 %	50 g RDI=69 %	1,377 kcal RDI=69 %	5,766 kJ RDI=69 %