Ingredients for my dish “green bean salad“:
Green beans – 300 g
Chicken breast – 200 g (smoked)
Cucumber – 2 pcs.
Soy sauce for chicken salad dressing – 100 ml
Lemon juice – 0.5 tbsp
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
Garlic – 2 cloves.
Sugar – 1 tsp
Sesame – 1 tbsp.
Salt – optional
Preparation:
Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for the summer salad. You can use both fresh and frozen green beans.
Step 2
If the salad is prepared from fresh green beans, then they should be washed well, cut off the tips and cut into strips 2-3 cm long.
Step 3
Boil green beans for salad in boiling, slightly salted water for 5-6 minutes. Throw it in a colander to drain the liquid.
Step 4
Heat vegetable oil (1 tablespoon) in a frying pan and fry green beans for salad for 5 minutes so that they are slightly browned.
If frozen beans are used in the recipe, then there is no need to cook them, it is enough, without defrosting, to transfer them to a cold (!) frying pan with oil, heat them and fry them for about 10-12 minutes.
Step 5
While the green beans are roasting, you need to cut the cucumbers into strips for the chicken salad.
And also cut the chicken breast in a similar way. In the recipe, instead of smoked chicken breast, you can use boiled chicken breast, but then the salad will be less fragrant and piquant.
Step 6
Make a chicken salad dressing: mix soy sauce, lemon juice, sugar, vegetable oil (2 tbsp.), garlic passed through a press, and salt as desired (because soy sauce is already quite salty).
Step 7
Place sliced cucumbers, chicken and fried green beans in a deep bowl.
Step 8
Pour green bean salad with dressing, mix, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Delicious!