AK’S AVACADO, GREEN BEAN & PINE NUT SALAD

Avocado, green bean & pine nut salad

Annabel Karmel

This is a recipe for breastfeeding mothers. Serves 1 portion.

Ingredients: 50g/2oz pine nuts
100g/4oz French beans, halved
2 plum tomatoes, halved and cut into slices
or 100g/4oz cherry tomatoes
200g/7oz mixed salad leaves
1 medium ripe avocado
2 hard boiled eggs, each cut into 6 wedges
100g / 4oz tinned sweetcorn

Dressing:
2 tbsp light olive oil
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tsp caster sugar
1/2 tbsp soy sauce
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Lightly toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan until lightly golden. Blanch the beans in boiling lightly salted water for 3-4 minutes or until just tender. Make the dressing by whisking together the oil, vinegar, caster sugar and soy sauce and season to taste. Stir in the blanched beans and the tomatoes and sweetcorn. Arrange the salad leaves in a dish, cut the avocado in half, remove the stone and skin, cut into thin slices and arrange on top of the salad leaves with the eggs. Spoon over the tomatoes, beans and dressing and finish by scattering over the pine nuts.