Green Bean

This recipe was created to accompany Broiled Salmon with Curried Eggplant Cutney . Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Offer this hearty and satisfying salad with grilled lamb or tuna.

Remember the green bean casserole made with nothing but convenience ingredients: frozen or canned green beans, canned cream of mushroom soup and, for the topping, canned fried onions? Here it is again, only fresher and better.

Active time: 15 min Start to finish: 30 min

Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 45 min

The tuna sauce for this salad is based on the Northern Italian tonnato— a summer sauce served over chilled veal roast. You could use light tuna, but white tuna makes the sauce a more attractive color.

Wilt the vegetables over low heat, stirring often so they do not burn.

"I dined on the most sumptuous grilled radicchio salad at The Dish Bistro and Wine Bar the last time I was in Tucson," writes Cindy Shafer of Huntington Beach, California. "Please get the recipe — I must have it." Yellow and green beans, and artichoke hearts are grilled along with the radicchio in this recipe. Serve the salad while the vegetables are still warm.

In this recipe, green beans are enhanced with buttery, slow-roasted onions that have been stirred into a sweetened vinegar sauce.

This salad was inspired by a classic Salade Niçoise with its fresh anchovies, potatoes and green beans, and one offered to me by Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, who comes to France every year to avail herself of, among other things, the fine green beans of summer.

Colorful, refreshing and delicious.

Ginger and crushed red pepper help round out the Thai theme of this quick dish.

The lobster and vegetables are tossed with an orange, shallot and tarragon dressing, then served over mixed green. Offer lavash crackers and white wine spritzers.

For a thicker, more traditional soup, replace all the green peas with a half cup of drained canned white beans.