French Beans & Mangetout With Hazelnut & Orange
A wonderful nutty salad that works perfectly mixed in with zesty orange! If you haven't yet discovered the delights of hazelnut oil then this salad is sure to become a staple within your salad favourites. A tasty salad that can be prepped ahead of time.
Ingredients
- 400 g French beans
- 400 g Mangetout
- 70 g Hazelnuts
- 1 Orange
- 20 g Chives roughly chopped
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp Hazelnut oil (or another nut oil if unavailable)
- 1 pinch Sea-salt
- 1 pinch black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C
- Trim the stalk ends of the French beans and the mangetout, keeping the two separate.
- Bring plenty of unsalted water to the boil in a large saucepan. Blanch the beans in the water for 4 mins, then drain into a colander and run them under water until cold. Leave to drain and dry.
- Repeat with the mangetout, but blanching this time for 1 min.
- While the beans are cooking, scatter the hazelnuts over a baking tray and roast in the oven for 10 mins. Leave until cool enough to handle, then rub them in a clean tea-towel to get rid of most of the skin.
- Roughly chop the nuts.
- Remove the zest from the orange in strips (using a vegetable peeler) then slice each piece of zest into very thin strips.
- Combine all the ingredients, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.