Warm Tuscan rustic salad from peacelily

dairy free egg free nut free kids can help can make in advance vegetarian low fat
Category
Salad recipes
Vegetarian recipes
Serves4 adults as a main, 6 as a side dish
Prep time 15 mins
Cook time20 mins

Mumsnetter ratings

based on (4) reviews
Ease of finding ingredients 9.5
Ease of cooking9
Success with kids5
Success with adults10
Overall Mark 8

Ingredients

1 kg bag of Charlotte salad potatoes
1 medium red onion (diced)
6 medium flavoursome tomatoes (like fresh plum tomatoes)
1/2 cucumber
1 400g tin of cannellini beans
1 handful of trimmed green beans
2 red peppers
Good slug of olive oil
Juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp of very lazy chillies (or 1 chopped fresh red chilli)
2 cloves of garlic (crushed)
2 or 3 lightly toasted crusts of stale "rustic bread" (eg ciabatta, focaccia)

Handy Hint

To allow the flavours to truly combine, allow the salad to marinate in the dressing for 20 minutes or so before serving

Method

1. Halve the potatoes, put them onto boil in salted water for 15-20 minutes.
2. Fry the onions on a low heat until soft, but not too brown. Leave to cool.
3. Place the red peppers under a hot grill for 20 minutes whole, turning occasionally until blackened and charred.
4. Roughly chop the tomatoes and cucumber.
5. Mix the tomatoes, cannellini beans, cucumber and onion together.
6. Remove the peppers from under the grill and place in a carrier bag for a couple of minutes to allow the steam to loosen the skin.
7. De-seed the peppers and skin them using a fork, the skin will come away easily.
8. Loosely chop the peppers.
9. Mix the potatoes, peppers and green beans with the rest of the salad.
10. Tear up the bread and toss it in.
11. Mix the olive oil, lemon juice, chilli and garlic together and pour over the salad and serve.

Mumsnetter Reviews

From: lilibet on Sat 23-Jun-12 21:48:06 Overall rating: 10.0
Dh and I have just made and eaten this beween two of us. It's gorgeous and will be made in the Lilibet household again.
From: LemonTurd on Sun 17-Jun-12 19:02:19 Overall rating: 0.0
Can I ask why you have to remove the pepper skins? I'm keen to use this recipe but that skin-removing seems a bit faffy!
From: Anon on Fri 16-May-08 18:53:14 Overall rating: 0.0
to peel the skins off easily, place the peppers in a plastic bag when hot, seal and wait a few minutes till cool and the skin slides off.
From: peacelily on Sat 19-Jan-08 15:29:02 Overall rating: 8.0
This is quick to make and delicious, I usually serve it as a main course as it's hearty and robust but it could be served as a side dish too. The only tricky bit is skinning the peppers but it gets a lot easier with time!



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