English garden salad

English garden salad

A fresh-tasting vegetarian supper - this recipe is easily halved to serve two, or doubled for a crowd

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Easily halved or doubled

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 25-35 minutes

Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Slice the potatoes and cook them in a large pan of salted boiling water for 7 minutes. While they're cooking, trim and diagonally slice the runner beans and chop the spring onions. Add the beans to the pan and cook for a further 7-9 minutes, until the potatoes and beans are just tender.
  2. Drain the veg and run under cold water to halt the cooking. Shake the colander to get rid of as much water as possible, then tip into a large bowl. Add the onions and tomatoes, crumble in the cheese and mix well.
  3. Add most of the mint and dressing and toss everything lightly together. Tip into a serving dish, drizzle with a little more dressing and scatter over the rest of the mint.

427 kcalories, protein 18.0g, carbohydrate 29.0g, fat 27.0 g, saturated fat 11.0g, fibre 6.0g, salt 2.39 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2002.

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  • 12 January 2008

    corylus rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Fantastic recipe for Summer.

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  • 23 April 2009

    Lynsey rated this recipe

    4 stars

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  • 13 August 2009

    Mandy commented on this recipe

    Honey and mustard dressing? I guess this is normal honey (could you use Greek) and wholegrain mustard did anybody use or add anything else?

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  • 19 September 2009

    Carol commented on this recipe

    didn't use the H&M dressing, didn't sound as if it went with all the other flavours, had the salad with sea bass, went very well.

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  • 11 August 2010

    Deacon rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    In honesty I expected this to be quite bland but I had a lot of the ingredients already so I thought I'd give it a go. Surprisingly nice albeit heavily dependant upon on the dressing to bring it to life that said we ate it as a meal on it's own rather than a side.

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  • 08 October 2010

    peghead rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I replaced the runner beans with a bunch of radish (because that's what I had from the garden). Cut them and place them in iced water prior to serving. As for the honey and mustard dressing I make: 500 ml of good quality extra virgin olive oil, 150 ml ofwhite wine vinegar, 2 tblspoons of dijon or wholegrain mustard (dependent on whether you like bits or not.) and two - three tablespoons of clear and runny honey. Keeps for ages. Fabulously quick summer recipe that used up bits and bobs from the garden. Caerphilly cheese also works well here.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Easily halved or doubled

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 25-35 minutes

Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Ingredients

  • 500g new potatoes
  • 350g runner beans
  • a bunch of spring onions
  • 240g tub sunblush or sundried tomatoes , drained
  • 200g Cheshire/Lancashire cheese
  • a good handful of fresh mint leaves (a 15g supermarket pack is fine), roughly chopped
  • 4-5 tbsp honey and mustard dressing
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427 kcalories, protein 18.0g, carbohydrate 29.0g, fat 27.0 g, saturated fat 11.0g, fibre 6.0g, salt 2.39 g

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