FRENCH BEAN SALAD

Summer in Delhi is hard, especially for the one who always want to have salad with meal like me. Price of green leafy vegetable is touching sky high and still not available. So, let's make some dishes which what are available in Mother Dairy vegetable shop nearby. French bean salad is very very simple, quick to make and great to eat. The technique of making this salad is how you boil the bean so that it should not be over cook or too raw and still maintain the green colour of vegetable. I remember, once the landlord of my friend said to her that Vietnamese do not know how to cook food, they only eat everything in steam and boil. I told my friend, tell that person, if she can boil vegetable in the right way so that veg. remain colour and vitamin is not killed the way Indian torture vegetables. Anyway, I am not going to enter into this war between my friend and her landlord. Just want to say, there is an art in making everything even the task which is look simplest. Like i saw my mother in law roll the roti, it comes perfectly shape like moon in full circle which i tried many time still can not even make right square....

Ok. Let's start our salad now

I. What do you need ?

- 500 gr French bean
- One onion (optional)
- the great salad dressing (see my last post for recipes)
- water

2. How to make ? 

Put 1/2 litter of water to boil. When i say boiled water, i mean water should be boiled with a lot of bubbling (right temperature will help to maintain the green colour of bean and help salad look tasty. French bean, clean and wash then drop in the boiling  water, cover for 5 minutes then open the lid and stir upside down all the bean. Then cover again for 5 or 10 min then off the gas, open the lid, otherwise bean will turn yellow. Let bean stay in hot water for 5 minutes, pour the whole thin in the plastic net and drain it in running water then keep it dry.

Slide Onion into rings. Toss bean + Onion ring with the great simple salad dressing (vinegrette) before you serve. This can serve warm or room temperature. Bean should have little crunchy noise when you bite it.