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Butter Bean + Courgette Ribbon Salad
Butter Bean + Courgette Ribbon Salad
Rated 4.8 stars by 4 users
Servings
3-4
Prep Time
5 minutes
Cook Time
5 minutes
Fresh, light + zingy, just what you need for a summer salad. This salad is fairly stripped back on ingredients, so we recommend sourcing the biggest, juciest beans (such as our Queen B's) for this recipe to really make each component sing.
Ingredients
- 2 green courgettes
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1 yellow courgette (or an extra green courgette)
- 1 lemon
- ½ garlic clove, crushed
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
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1 jar of Bold Bean Co Queen Butter Beans, drained
- A large bunch of basil (30 g)
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½ a small bunch of fresh mint (roughly 10g) roughly chopped
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60 g fresh rocket (roughly 1 bag)
- 50 g parmesan cheese
- 50 g pine nuts, toasted
Directions
Trim the ends off the courgettes. Using a flat vegetable peeler, peel the courgettes lengthways into ribbons (a mandoline would be very useful for this job if you have one). Continue to peel until you reach the core of the courgettes. You may find this leaves a lot of courgette remaining, but we recommend cutting the core into strips and charring these chunks to toss into the salad.
- Place the courgette ribbons in a colander over a bowl, season with salt and allow to stand to extract the excess water for roughly 2-3 minutes.
- In a small mixing bowl, add the juice of 1 lemon, crushed garlic (add the whole clove if you’re a garlic fan), olive oil and balsamic vinegar and stir to combine. Cut down on the balsamic if you don’t like it too sharp or add more lemon juice instead.
- Add the courgettes to a large serving bowl or platter and grate over the zest of 1 lemon.
- Add the butter beans to the bowl, tear in the fresh basil, the chopped mint leaves and toss everything together.
- Drizzle over the dressing and toss thoroughly to coat.
- Finish by sprinkling over the toasted pine nuts and using a peeler, shave over some parmesan cheese.
