A bowl serving bean, tomato & watercress salad

Bean, tomato & watercress salad

By Esther Clark
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Prep: 15 mins No cook

Easy

Serves 2

Try this gluten-free, vegan salad with filling beans and fresh watercress for a quick, light meal. It has just four ingredients and three of your five-a-day

Nutrition and extra info

  • Gluten-free
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan

Nutrition: Per serving

  • kcal454
  • fat23g
  • saturates3g
  • carbs40g
  • sugars5g
  • fibre10g
  • protein16g
  • salt4.8g
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Ingredients

  • 2 x 400g can cannellini beans
    Cannellini bean

    Cannellini bean

    can-a-leen-ee been

    Slightly kidney-shaped with squarish ends, cannellini beans are from Italy and are creamy white…

  • 100g watercress
    Watercress

    Watercress

    wort-er-cress

    With deep green leaves, and crisp, paler stems, watercress is related to mustard and is one of…

  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
    Lemon

    Lemon

    le-mon

    Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…

  • 250g pack sundried tomatoes and olives

Method

  1. Drain and rinse the beans, then combine in a bowl with the watercress, zest and juice of the lemon, tomatoes and olives, including the oil from the pack. Toss well and season to taste.

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Dominic's picture
Dominic
9th Jun, 2018
3.05
A good basic salad that is really easy to make. I chose to add dressing but it also works well with mayonnaise.
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