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Marbecks' broccoli and bean salad
Ingredients
1 head broccoli, cut into small florets
500g brussel sprouts, cut into quarters
1 cup red kidney beans (can be canned)
1 cup black-eyed beans (can be canned)
1 cup turtle beans (can be canned)
1 cup frozen corn kernals
shredded kale
shreeded silverbeet
Lemon vinagrette
2 Tbsp lemon juice
5 Tbsp olive oil
½ tbsp dijon mustard
sugar to taste
Method
Lightly blanch broccoli and brussel sprouts.
Then add to beans and corn and combine.
Add kale and silverbeet and toss through with lemon vinagrette.
Season with salt and pepper.
Lemon vinagrette
Place all ingredients in a jar with a tight fitting lid and shake well.
Recipe provided by Marbecks, Wall Street Mall.
Recipe requested by Diane Lean, Oamaru.
If you have enjoyed a dish in an Otago cafe or restaurant and would like the recipe, write to Ask a Chef, Features, Otago Daily Times, PO Box 181, Dunedin, fax 474-7422, or email odt.features@odt.co.nz, including your name, address and a daytime telephone number, and we will request it.
