Vegetable salad with string beans and cherry tomatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a vegetable salad with green string beans? Prepare all the necessary products according to the list. For the salad, I used a green mix of various young leaves. You can take iceberg lettuce, batavia, corn, lettuce or chard. It is better to take red onion, shallot or white salad. These varieties have a milder taste and are ideal for light vegetable salads.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut off the tails on both sides of the beans and remove the antennae on the sides (if any). Cut each pod into small fragments about 2 centimeters long. Rinse the beans in clean water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Next there are two ways to process the pods. First: beans can be thrown into boiling water and cooked until the pods become soft. Second: pour 2 tablespoons of odorless vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up, send the beans and finely chopped garlic to fry until soft. I like the second option better, so I fry the beans more often.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the lettuce leaves, put them on paper napkins and gently blot them from all sides to get rid of excess moisture. Send it to the salad bowl.

5. Step 5:

   

   Rinse the cucumber and tomatoes and dry them. Cut the vegetables into arbitrary small pieces. Add to the salad mix.

7. Step 6:

   

   Peel the carrot, remove the core and seeds from the bell pepper. For a brighter and more appetizing look of the finished dish, if possible, use peppers of different colors. Cut the bell pepper into strips, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater or chop them with a vegetable cutter for Korean salads.

8. Step 7:

   

   Add chopped onion and string beans to all the ingredients.

9. Step 8:

   

   The finishing touches are left. Chop the greens finely, add to the salad. Add salt and pepper to taste. If necessary, add a little olive oil or vegetable oil (if the beans were fried, then the oil may not be needed at this stage).

10. Step 9:

    

    Mix the salad and sprinkle with lemon or lime juice.

11. Step 10:

    

    Done! Serve as an independent dish or in addition to meat, potatoes, fish and much more.