Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions

Looking for information on how to cook fresh green beans? Just steaming and eating fresh green beans is great, but you can make them more interesting too with other green bean recipes. I like them in this green bean salad: Green Beans and Tomato Salad. And here is another green bean salad you can make – combine steamed green beans with almonds, red onions and a zesty lemon dressing.

The lemon dressing uses both lemon rind and lemon juice and makes the whole salad very fresh and lemony. The almonds add crunch and red onions add great color, a bit of spiciness and even more crunch. This is a great salad to serve with lots of different dishes, for example with Chicken Piccata or Shrimp Scampi.

More salad recipes: Watermelon Feta Salad, Avocado, Goat Cheese and Tomato Salad, Strawberry Spinach Salad.

Tools You Will Need To Make Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions

Vegetable Steamer To Steam Green Beans
Citrus Zester
Citrus Juicer
Small Skillet To Toast Almonds
Knife
Cutting Board
Salad Bowl

Ingredients For Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions

1 Pound of Green Beans
1/2 of a small Red Onion
A handful of slivered Almonds

1 Lemon, you will need both zest and juice from it
2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
Salt
Freshly Ground Black Pepper

How To Make Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions

Wash and clean the green beans. Steam the green beans for 5-7 minutes. Cool.

Toast the slivered almonds on a skillet.

Chop the red onion.

Zest the lemon, using the zester. Juice the lemon to get one tablespoon of lemon juice.

Make the dressing for the salad – combine lemon rind, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.

In a salad bowl, combine the green beans and onions. Add the dressing and mix. Add the almonds.