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French bean salad

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Ingredients for 4 servings:

  • 400 g beans, green, fresh, alternatively frozen beans
  • Salt
  • 600 g potatoes, cooked the day before
  • 300 g smoked turkey breast in slices
  • 200 g red onion(s)
  • 120 g cucumber(s) (gherkins)
  • 2 tbsp Balsamic vinegar, possibly white
  • 1 tbsp coarse-grained mustard
  • 1 garlic clove(s)
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • Pepper, from the mill

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Total time approx. 45 minutes

Trim and halve the beans, then cook in salted water for 6-8 minutes. Then refresh in ice water. Peel and roughly dice the potatoes. Cut the turkey breast into 1 cm cubes. Peel the onion and slice it into strips. Finely dice the gherkins. Mix all ingredients together. Combine the vinegar with the mustard, crushed garlic, and honey, then add the oil. Whisk with a fork and season with salt and pepper. Mix the vinaigrette with the salad. Drizzle a little more vinegar and oil over the salad, if desired. Serve with hard-boiled eggs if desired.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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