Warm potato & green bean salad with a soft egg

Warm potato & green bean salad with a soft egg

A satisfyingly seasonal salad

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 2

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Slice the potatoes, there's no need to skin them, then cook in boiling salted water until tender, about 20 mins, adding the beans halfway through. Drain well, then toss in 1 tbsp olive oil.
  2. Boil the eggs for 5 mins, drain, cool and shell. Quarter, deseed and chop the tomato. Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan, fry the lardoons until crisp and turning brown. Add the garlic and tomato and heat through briefly.
  3. Divide the potatoes and beans between two plates. Stir the basil and vinegar into the pan and heat through briefly, then spoon over the salad. Cut the eggs in half and sit them on top.
Try

Make it veggie

Omit the lardons and fry 100g sliced button mushrooms instead.

Per serving

589 kcalories, protein 22g, carbohydrate 46g, fat 37 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 5g, sugar 7g, salt 1.9 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2006.

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  • 18 February 2011

    delsh21 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very tasty. I happened to have all the ingredients and needed to use them all up but I was surprised by how good it was. I'll make sure I always have the ingredients for this as it makes an ideal lazy mid-week dinner

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    09 April 2011

    els rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    very,very good salad! I have cooked this several times over the years and every time we enjoy it again.I cook only 250gr. or 1 lb. of potatoes and the rest as is written in the recipe and it is perfect for the two of us! It reminds me of the Belgium Salad.Salade Liègeoise!

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    09 April 2011

    els commented on this recipe

    little mistake above...I use 1/2 lbs. or 250 gr. of potato,sorry...!

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  • 12 July 2012

    Nick Davison commented on this recipe

    I making this for my dinner tonight, i've been shopping and bought all the ingredients apart from red wine vinegar as I have some white and they are normally interchangeable. Looks like a great recipe by the way. In step two, the recipe states "fry the lardoons until crisp and turning brown." But I could not find any Lardoons at the shop, so i'm just going to use oak smoked Lardons in their place, I hope this will be ok :) hehe.

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  • 12 July 2012

    Nick Davison rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    That was great, the warm vinaigrette, garlic, and basil work really well together. The recipe is stored in my binder and I am sure I will be making it again in the none too distant future. It's an unbelievably simple recipe to make, but one of the best I have tried in a while.

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  • 22 January 2013

    marya9940 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is a lovely simple recipe but I enjoy it every single time. A total winner.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 2

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Ingredients

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Per serving

589 kcalories, protein 22g, carbohydrate 46g, fat 37 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 5g, sugar 7g, salt 1.9 g

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