Easy Tangy Green Beans Salad with a Crunch

Easy Tangy Green Beans Salad with a Crunch Recipe:
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Serves: 4
Prep/Cooking time: 15 mins.


Ingredients:
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Green beans - (cut in 1 inch long pieces)


Red onion - 1 (cut in thin, long slices)


Green chilli peppers - 2 or 3 (slit in thin, long slices)


Roasted almonds - 4 or 5 crushed into medium-size pieces


Garlic powder - 1tsp


For seasoning and salad dressing: mix together salt(according to taste), black pepper - 1tsp,


lemon juice(or vinegar of your taste) - 2 tbsp, light olive oil (could be subsituted with peanut oil)- 1tbsp




Method:
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Cook the cut green beans in boiling water for 5 or 6 mins. They taste better in the salad when they still retain the bright green color even after cooking. That way you know they are not over-cooked.


After taking off the heat, drain the boiling water and set aside the beans.


Then, optionally, you could shock the beans in cold water for a minute so that they retain the bright green color and do not overcook.


Then, in a bowl, mix the green beans with the sliced onion, cut green chillies, almonds and garlic powder.


Finally pour the seasoning/salad dressing ingredients on top and toss well together till well-mixed.


You could garnish the salad on top with lemon zest/cilantro. I used yellow boondi(Indian fritters) for garnish.