October 15, 2008: Green-On-Green Salad, Kicked Upwards Amongst Potatoes

green together with gorgeous saltation salad, together with it was equally greenish together with gorgeous equally ever. Since TasteMaker 1 time again, together with nosotros were rewarded amongst a fresh top dog meal, tangy amongst lemon together with alternating tender together with crunchy. While the asparagus together with avocado inwards the greenish together with gorgeous salad are best gobbled upwardly quickly, the leftovers of this green-on-green salad were all the same most appetising at lunchtime the side past times side day.

Kicked Up Texas mix. It had a nice, ho-hum dismiss but maybe a piddling to a greater extent than saccharide than nosotros needed. It was a dandy alter from my salt/pepper/olive stone oil routine, anyway.

Green-on-green salad

1kg wide beans, podded to yield 400g
500g peas, shelled to yield 150g
1 bunch mint, leaves picked
1/2 clove garlic
juice & zest of 1 lemon
4 tablespoons adept lineament olive oil
4 handfuls infant spinach

Fill a saucepan amongst hot H2O together with a pinch of salt, together with convey it to the boil. Put the peas into a strainer together with lower the strainer into the H2O thence that the peas are immersed - laid them similar that for a minute, together with thence cause got 'em out together with douse 'em inwards mutual depression temperature water. Do the same for the wide beans, but laid them for nearly 4 minutes instead. The wide beans volition require to hold upwardly skinned a 2d fourth dimension when they're cool plenty to handle.

Next, instruct your mortar together with pestle (or TasteMaker!) out to prepare the dressing. Roughly strike together 2/3 of the mint, 2/3 of the peas, the garlic together with lemon zest amongst a pinch of salt. Stir inwards the lemon juice together with oil, taste, together with accommodate the seasoning to your preference.

Time to gather the salad! You could but toss it all together but it's likewise overnice to layer it up, starting off amongst the spinach together with beans thence working upwardly to peas, mint together with dressing.

My Legume Love Affair, the 4th helping. Originally conceived past times Susan, the Well-Seasoned Cook, it's existence hosted past times Sra of When My Soup Came Alive this month.