Green Beans with Lemon and Mustard

Name: Green Beans with Lemon and Mustard
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tsp honey or maple syrup; 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 500 g green beans, trimmed; 1 banana shallot, very thinly sliced; salt; 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard; zest and juice of 1 lemon; 1 garlic clove, grated; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Salads

By Fi Buchanan

Published 2023

About

This is a really delicious way to enjoy green beans. I’ve blanched them here for some sweet crunch, but you could easily toss them in oil and blister them in a hot pan. Try adding toasted walnuts or crumbled feta to this salad if you feel like changing things up a bit.

Ingredients

500 g green beans, trimmed
salt

Dinner
Vegetarian
August
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

Cook the beans in a large pan of salted simmering water for 3 to 4 minutes, then drain and refresh briefly under the cold water tap to stop them cooking. Drain well to ensure you don’t add water to the dressing.

To make the dressing, add the mustard, lemon zest and juice, oil, honey or maple syrup, garlic and salt and pepper to a large bowl and whisk for about a minute, until emulsified