Bean Salad with Lemon-Caper Mayonnaise

Fassolia Salata, me Mayonesa me Kapari

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4 to 6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Foods of the Greek Islands

By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 2000

  • About

CHEF Jim Botsacos created this variation on the popular island bean salad, which is traditionally served with a lemon vinaigrette and topped with chopped scallions or thin onion rings. He adds a little chopped garlic and diced tomatoes and dresses the beans with a thin lemony mayonnaise flavored with chopped capers.

You can serve this bean salad as a side dish or as a meze. Chef Botsacos pairs it with his garlic-scented crab cak