24 Gourmande Salad

Cooking the vegetables

1. Throw the French beans into a saucepan of boiling well-salted water and cook them uncovered and at a galloping boil for between 4 and 8 minutes according to their size. They should be ‘al dente’. Take them quickly out of the water with a slotted spoon and plunge for 10 seconds in a basin of iced water. Then drain