Green Bean Composed Salad

By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen

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This recipe makes 4 servings

Nutritional Info
Per serving: about	-
cal	213213 cal
pro	5 g5g pro
total fat	18 g18g total fat
sat. fat	3 g3g sat. fat
carb	11 g11g carb
fibre	3 g3g fibre
chol	93 mg93mg chol
sodium	508 mg508mg sodium
% RDI:	-
calcium	77 calcium
iron	1616 iron
vit A	1414 vit A
vit C	3232 vit C
folate	2424 folate

A salade composée— arranged rather than tossed — is an attractive way to serve beans. The hard-cooked eggs, tomatoes and black olives that surround the dressed green beans are perfect flavour and colour complements.

Ingredients

1 lb green beans , cooked1 1lb lbgreen beangreen beans, cooked
2 plum tomatoes 2 2plum tomatoplum tomatoes
2 hard-cooked eggs 2 2hard-cooked eggs
1/3 cup black olives 1/3 1/3cup cupblack oliveblack olives
Dressing:
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 1/4cup cupextra-virgin olive oil
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley 2 2tbsp tbspchopped fresh parsley or basil
2 tbsp wine vinegar 2 2tbsp tbspwine vinegar
2 cloves garlic , minced2 2cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp each salt and pepper 1/4 1/4tsp tspeach salt and pepper

Preparation

Dressing: In small bowl, whisk together oil, parsley, vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper.

In separate bowl, toss beans with half of the dressing; arrange in centre of serving platter or bowl. Cut each tomato into 6 wedges and each egg into quarters; arrange around beans. Drizzle remaining dressing over top. Sprinkle with olives.

Source : Canadian Living Magazine: July 2003

Keywords : Salad; Vegetarian; Green beans; Tomatoes; Black olives; Eggs;

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