Alastair Little, Richard Whittington

Tarator French Beans

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Food of the Sun: A Fresh Look at Mediterranean Cooking
Food of the Sun

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1995

  • About

The beans are cooked just sufficiently to lose crude rawness but not enough to lose their snap before being coated — while still warm - with a garlic and walnut dressing. For more on Tarator sauce.

Ingredients

  • 450 g/1 lb fine green beans
  • 115 g/4

Method

Preparation

Blanch the beans for 4 minutes in a large pan of rapidly boiling salted water, refresh in cold water and drain.

Put the nuts, breadcrumbs, garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper into a food processor and whizz to a paste. Then add the olive oil in a thin stream through the feeder tube until you have a smooth purée.

Spoon this over the beans and toss to coat.<