Recipe: Green Bean Salad with Homemade Dressing

Ingredients:

4 leafs cos lettuce
1 punnet grape tomatoes
2 lebanese cucumbers
1 hass avocado
1 quarter red onion
handful of green beans
handful of snow peas
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Seeded mustard
Minced garlic


1. wash and cut up lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado and red onion. Put in a big serving bowl.

2. Cut the ends off the snow peas, then put them in boiling water for 15 seconds. Rinse in cold water until cool enough to touch. Cut into bite sized pieces and add to salad.

3. Cut the ends off the green beans. Put in boiling water for 3 minutes. Rinse in cold water until cool enough to touch and add to salad.

4. Put a generous teaspoon of seeded mustard, a generous teaspoon of minced garlic and about 1 and a half tablespoons of oil and 1 teaspoon of balsamic (vary according to taste)

5. Mix well and serve!


TIP: salad doesn't last because avocado goes brown overnight - but putting a bit of lemon juice in sometimes helps.