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Grandma's salad

This salad harks back to the ones French grandmas used to make: green beans and potatoes (preferably still warm) mixed with diced cheese, parsley and chopped onion in a good vinaigrette dressing.

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Last modified on: September 29^th 2021

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 700 g green beans
2 4 potatoes
3 1 red onion
4 1 bunch parsley
5 50 g Comté cheese
6 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
Total weight: 1,590 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
24 min.	30 min.	54 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 1 min.

Prepare 700 g green beans and reserve.

Stage 2 - 30 min.

Plunge 4 potatoes into the same cooking water as the beans (there are no small savings) and cook until tender.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Meanwhile, prepare 1 red onion and chop finely.

Chop 1 bunch parsley.

Put into a salad bowl.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Dice 50 g Comté cheese.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

Add to the bowl.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Cut the green beans into short lengths...

Stage 7 - 1 min.

..and add to the bowl.

Stage 8 - 4 min.

Once the potatoes are cooked, peel them.

Stage 9 - 2 min.

Slice and add to the bowl.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Add 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette), mix well and your "grandma's" salad is ready.

Remarks

It's important to try and make this a warm salad, with both the beans and potatoes still warm from cooking, served without delay.

If you don't have Comté cheese, any other hard-paste cheese you like will do fine.

Keeping

Best eaten immediately but will keep in the fridge for later.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,550 Kcal or 6,490 Kj	47 gr	184 gr	70 gr
77 %	18 %	17 %	11 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
97 Kcal or 406 Kj	3 gr	12 gr	4 gr
5 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
387 Kcal or 1,620 Kj	12 gr	46 gr	17 gr
19 %	5 %	4 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Sulfites, Mustard

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 5.18 $
Per person : 1.30 $

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Green beans: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: French bean salad with vinaigrette , Green beans with tomato cream sauce, Green bean purée, Green bean and potato salad with paprika, Green beans with tomatoes, ... All
	Comté cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gratin of Jerusalem artichokes à la Comtoise, Small cheese and bacon rolls , Two-cheese vegetable gratin, Cocotte eggs with Comté, Mozzarella pasta bake, ... All
	French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mixed tomato salad, Leeks in vinaigrette , Cornouaillaise salad, Mixed salad, Baby spinach salad, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Warm Leek and Potato Salad, Seafood sauerkraut, Boeuf (beef) bourguignon, Pork Chops Champvallon style, Melting Epoisses on toast , ... All

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