Green Bean Salad with Pickled Red Onions

Fresh green beans, cooked tender crisp & eaten cold with soft pickled onions. This is a great side dish or salad…your choice. I served this as a side dish, but I think it would be good served as part of an appetizer course for dinner. I follow a great food blog called loveandumami. The  recipe for pickled onions is from there. I made them mostly because we like onions, but not raw ones. This seemed like a perfect solution. I am not going to put the recipe here, but I think you should visit loveandumami & get the recipe! I served these onions with cold blanched green beans that I had put a vinaigrette on . I will give you the recipe for the green bean salad

You can find the recipe for the pickled onions here

https://loveandumami.com/2017/03/16/quick-pickled-onions/

Green Bean Salad with Pickled Red Onions

3oo grams of fresh green beans *** of course you can make as much as you’d like!

Pickled red onions ***get the recipe from lovenadumami

Vinaigrette:

3 tbsp olive oil

1 1/2 tbsp white wine vinegar

1/2 tsp Dijon mustard

1/2 tsp sugar

1.2 tsp salt

pepper

Method

1. Trim the green beans
2. Boil a pot of water big enough for all the green beans to go into at one time
3. Drop the beans into the boiling water & let boil until they are a bright green colour..I boiled them for about 5 minutes
4. While the beans are boiling, get a bowl of ice water ready that you will put the beans into to stop the cooking process
5. When the beans are cooked to you liking, transfer them with a slotted spoon to the ice water. Let cool in there, drain well, I dried them,  then transfer the beans  to a serving dish
6. Mix up the vinaigrette ingredients in a jar & shake well to combine.
7. Put some of the pickled red onions on the beans *** the amount of onions you use is up to you !
8. Pour as much vinaigrette on your beans & onions as you like…some like their food more ‘dressed’ then others & it depends on how many beans you have cooked

Enjoy!