Name: Mixed bean salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Israel
Ingredients: 280 g yellow beans, trimmed (if unavailable, double the quantity of French beans); salt and black pepper; 2 red peppers, cut into 0.5 cm strips; 280 g French beans, trimmed; 3 tbsp olive oil, plus 1 tsp for the peppers; 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 50 g capers, rinsed and patted dry; grated zest of 1 lemon; 20 g picked chervil leaves (or a mixture of picked dill and shredded parsley); 4 spring onions, thinly sliced; 2 tsp coriander seeds; 10 g tarragon, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Jerusalem

By Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

Published 2012

About

String beans are in season in summer and early autumn and are a symbol of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana), particularly with Sephardi Jews. You would expect the fruit and vegetable market, Machne Yehuda, to be bustling the last two days before Rosh Hashana, a holiday on which a seminal family meal takes place. Often, though, the market is eerily calm. A taxi driver explained to us that the smart and canny housewives shop well before the holiday, when the prices are low, preparing and coo