Are you bored of always boiling your green beans? Have you ever tried having a green bean salad? Try my green bean salad with mango and red peppers instead and watch the instant love affair start. It is so simple to make and will have you licking your fingers. Impress your family and friends with this perfect side to so many main courses. The freshness of the beans and the sweetness of the mangoes is a perfect combination.

The Ingredients for the Green Bean Salad

We only need five simple ingredients to make this green bean salad. How can you ever go wrong with that?

Ingredients for the Green Bean Salad with Mango and Red Peppers

The Ingredients List for Green Bean Salad:

500 grams of fresh green beans
1 large red bell pepper
1 large semi-ripe mango
2 shallots (or a small red onion)
1/4 cup crumbled feta

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The Green Beans:

To make the salad, the first step is to wash and steam or boil 500 grams of green beans.

In a large pot, boil enough water to submerge the green beans.
Add a little salt to the water as well. This helps the salad take on a homogenous salty flavour.
Boil the green beans for about 2-3 mins. The color of the beans will change to a brighter green.

The Blanching Process:

While the beans are cooking, get some ice cold water ready in a bowl. You can pour some cold water into a bowl and throw in some ice. Or if you don’t want to do that, you can pour some water into a bowl and place it in the freezer for a few minutes before you start boiling the beans.

Drain them from the boiling water and immediately put them into the bowl with ice-cold water to stop the cooking process. You can also run them under cold water from the tap and that does the trick. Drain the water completely and let them sit while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.

Assembling the Vegetarian Recipe:

Deseed and slice one red pepper into thin slices. Peel and slice one large mango into thin slices as well. Peel and slice two shallots. Place all of these things into a salad bowl. Add the fully drained green beans into the bowl and toss everything together.

Crumble a quarter cup of feta and add it to the bowl and toss again to mix the feta into the salad. To dress the salad, you will need to use my onion poppyseed vinaigrette.

The Onion Poppyseed Vinaigrette

I use my home made onion poppyseed vinaigrette for this recipe. I find the slightly sweet, slightly tangy dressing goes really well with this salad. You can find the recipe for my onion poppyseed vinaigrette here.

Dressing the Gluten Free Salad:

Pour about 1/4 cup of the dressing into the bowl and mix well so that the vegetables and mango are well coated.

Green Bean Salad with Mango and Red Peppers

Serving Suggestions for the Vegetarian Salad:

We enjoy this salad as a side with so many entrees. In fact, my family regularly asks for this salad during the summer months when mangoes are plentiful. I recommend you try it with :

my oven roasted chicken thighs.
or with my honey mustard chicken thighs.

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