Green Bean Composed Salad
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.
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.
Pureed beans lend a rich texture without all the fat and calories of creamed soups.
Garden-fresh beans receive an exotic twist with a lightly spiced crunchy coconut and sesame seed topping.
This four-ingredient cookie couldn't be simpler. The vanilla bean gives a lovely hit of flavour without using extract, which is usually not kosher for Passover. The scraped bean pod can be added to a canister of granulated sugar to perfume it for all of your baking.
A great source of protein, vitamins, minerals and fibre, beans are something we should include more of in our diet. However, some delicious bean recipes can have a lot of sugar and saturated fat. This no-added-fat quick vegan version uses a bit of molasses and the natural sweetness of apples to weigh in at about half the fat and calories of traditional baked beans.
Serve this for dinner with Confetti Pepper Rice, but save two drumsticks for your child's lunch the next day. Black beans and garlic sauce is a Chinese convenience item available at most grocery stores. Made of seasoned fermented black beans, its sharp and salty flavour seems universally appreciated by children.
Green beans can be trimmed by simply breaking off the stem end. Blanching them keeps their beautiful bright green colour – perfect for a summer salad. When available, yellow wax beans make a nice contrasting addition to the green beans.
Stay full longer with the protein boost from eggs and beans.
Measure out green beans by the handful. Four handfuls make about 12 oz (375 g).
To retain the colour and crispness of the beans, make this salad as close to the time of your get-together as possible.