Green Bean Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Feta

Name: Green Bean Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Feta
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds, green beans, trimmed and cut into 1- to 2-inch lengths; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt, plus salt for blanching; 12 ounces, cherry tomatoes, halved; 1/4 cup, extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons, chopped fresh mint; 2 tablespoons, chopped fresh parsley; 1 tablespoon, lemon juice; 1/4 teaspoon, pepper; 2 ounces, feta cheese, crumbled (½ cup)

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By Andrew Janjigian

Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2019

Side Dishes

Salads

SERVES4 to 6

TIME40 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To make the beans in this salad tender, bright green, and deeply flavored, we blanched them in highly concentrated salt water (¼ cup of salt to 2 quarts of water). This quickly softened the pectin in the beans' skins, so they became tender ...

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