Bean Salad Recipe, prepare Salad with Green Beans

Name: Bean Salad Recipe, prepare Salad with Green Beans
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2 Portions
Ingredients: fresh green beans 150 g; red onion 1 pc; Salt 4-6 pinches; brown sugar 4 pinches; Pepper 3 pinches; white wine vinegar 1-2 tbs; lemon juice 1-2 tbs; sun flower oil 1-2 tbs; pumpkin seed oil 1-2 tbs

Green Bean Salad Recipe Picture — Green bean salad freshly prepared, with red onions and oils.

Picture of Thomas Sixt Chef and Food Photographer

from Thomas Sixt
Hi, I am a German Chef and Food Photographer. The imparting of cooking knowledge is my great passion. Everyone can cook for himself and with this website I would like to contribute to its success. Cooking questions I answer you gladly at the end of the articles. Have fun and good luck!

Here I show you my recipe Green Bean Salad. The green beans come in two variations… with pumpkin seed oil and… classic with vinegar-oil dressing. What has to be considered during preparation? What goes well with a bean salad? Which onion is right? Which vinegar promises a good taste? I’ll answer all these questions here in this article. The popular side salad goes well with many skin dishes with fish and meat. We appreciate its cooling effect when grilling and BBQ in summer. Get many tips for salad and dressing now. Good luck!

Fresh beans in the pot — You can cut the beans into small pieces or leave them whole, both variants are ok. Chopped up beans accept more salad dressing.

You can cut the beans into small pieces or leave them whole. Both versions are ok. Tip: Small cut beans accept more salad dressing.

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1. Salad with Green Beans, the most important Things at a Glance…
2. Recipe Bean Salad with Green Beans
3. Calories Green Bean Salad, the Nutritional Values at a Glance
4. More Recipes

1. Salad with Green Beans, the most important Things at a Glance…

After removing the ends, cook the beans in boiling salted water until al dente and then in ice water. The green colour of the bean is retained by the rapid cooling.
Use preferably red onions for bean salad. Immediately after cutting, soak the onion cubes in vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar. The fermentation process of the sliced onion is thus interrupted. The onion tastes fresh and fine in the salad.
Red wine vinegar and white wine vinegar are the preferred varieties.
Balsamic vinegar: Use a matured, old balsamic vinegar or a boiled down balsamic vinegar cream.
You can also try lemon juice, which is used in Ayurvedic cooking instead of vinegar!
Use neutral vegetable oil or pumpkin seed oil. If you’re going to Austria, you’ll find the lettuce on the menu as a ‘Fisolensalat’.
Do not leave the prepared salad warm for too long and consume it quickly.

The typical side dish salad goes well with Sunday roast meat, short roasted meat and generally as a healthy supplement to snacks.

Tomato salad recipe picture — Finish off the tomato salad with herbs. Recipe picture for the article.

Tomato Salad with and without vinegar I will show you elsewhere. © Foodphotographer Thomas Sixt

2. Recipe Bean Salad with Green Beans

Below you will find step-by-step instructions and supplementary tips.

Green Bean Salad Recipe

Bean salad with step by step photos and many tips from professional chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2 Portions

Calories 122

Total Time 25 Min.

Green bean salad simply and fantastically delicious to prepare. The green beans are called ‘Fisolen’ in Austria. This recipe shows you step by step how to prepare ‘Fisolen’ salad. I’ll help you choose the right vinegar and oil for your onion and marinade. I wish you all the best!

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Ingredients

Basic Preparation
150	g	fresh green beans
1	pc	red onion
4-6	pinches	Salt
4	pinches	brown sugar (I prefer to use raw cane sugar)
3	pinches	Pepper
Option Vinegar or Lemon Juice
1-2	tbs	white wine vinegar (or balsamic or red wine vinegar)
1-2	tbs	lemon juice
Option Oil
1-2	tbs	sun flower oil
1-2	tbs	pumpkin seed oil

Instruction

Clean the green beans — Clean green beans or green beans.

Wash and dry the beans and cut off the ends.

Cleaned green beans — Beans trimmed on the board

Prepare the beans for blanching. Place a pot of water on top and bring to the boil. Season to taste with salt.

Boil raw beans — Boil beans in salted water.

Place the beans in the boiling water and blanch until al dente.

Firm to the bite Cool cooked beans — Blanch the beans and let them cool.

Then cool the cooked beans in cold water. Water with ice cubes is ideal.

red onion and garlic — Red onion and garlic on a kitchen board.

Halve and peel the onion and garlic.

Finely dice the onion and garlic.

Onion in vinegar — Red onion cubes in vinegar with sugar, the marinade makes the onion last a little longer.

Put onion cubes and garlic cubes in a bowl. Add vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar and mix well.

Marinate the bean salad with onions. — Marinate the beans with the onions.

Add the cooled and drained beans to the vinegar marinade.

Next refine with neutral oil or pumpkin seed oil. Try salad and season to taste with salt, pepper and sugar.

Bean salad recipe picture — Freshly prepared green bean salad, served with red onions and oil.

Arrange and serve the salad. Enjoy your meal!

Bean salad with bacon…
Fry the bacon cubes in a pan until crispy and sprinkle lukewarm over the salad.

Bean salad with cream…
Replace vinegar with lemon juice and mix with 30 ml cream.

Grandma’s bean salad…
My grandmother prepared the salad with neutral, diluted vinegar essence. Use a commercial table vinegar for bean salad according to grandma´s style.

3. Calories Green Bean Salad, the Nutritional Values at a Glance

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More side dishes salads:
Coleslaw salad
Potato Salad recipes
Tomato Salad

Bean salad goes well with:
Bavarian roast pork
Quick roast pork
Steak with fried potatoes
Viennese Schnitzel
Meatloaf
Beef roulades