"Eat Your Vegetables!": Green Bean Salad with Red Onion and Tomato
- Difficulty: Easy
- Servings: 4
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Preparation Time: 10 minutes
- Cooking Time: 5 minutes
Discover a vibrant, refreshing salad that celebrates the natural flavors of fresh vegetables. Tender green beans meet crisp cucumber, bright tomatoes, and peppery red onion in this simple yet elegant dish. Ready in just 15 minutes, it's perfect as a light side or a healthy standalone meal.
Ingredients:
- 1 pound fresh green beans, cleaned and trimmed
- 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 European cucumber, cut into thin sticks similar in size and shape to green beans
- 1/2 pint grape tomatoes, halved
- Extra-virgin olive oil, to drizzle
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Coarse salt and ground black pepper
Directions:
- Place green beans in a steamer basket over 1/2 inch of boiling water, cover, and steam for about 3 to 4 minutes. Immediately transfer the beans to cold water to stop the cooking, then drain thoroughly.
- In a bowl, combine the steamed green beans with the sliced red onions, cucumber sticks, and halved grape tomatoes.
- Drizzle generously with extra-virgin olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
- Season with coarse salt and freshly ground pepper to taste, then toss gently to combine.
Nutritional Information Per Serving (1 of 4 servings): Calories 66, Total Fat 3 g, Saturated Fat 0 g, Carbohydrates 11 g, Dietary Fiber 4 g, Sugar 5 g, Protein 3 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Sodium 383 mg
