Green Bean Salad

These light and fresh green bean salads are the perfect summer side dish. Try these recipes including cannellini-and-green bean salad, curried cauliflower and green bean salad with lemon yogurt and summer bulgur and green bean salad.

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Curried Cauliflower and Green Bean Salad with Lemon Yogurt

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Mark Peel, chef at Los Angeles's esteemed Campanile, opened the Point, a casual new breakfast-and-lunch spot, in Culver City. Here he flavors roasted cauliflower and green beans with a mild curry powder.

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Cannellini-and-Green Bean Salad

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This simple and fresh-tasting salad, enlivened by salty olives and fresh cilantro, is a nice way to showcase fresh porotos (beans), a staple in the Huneeus household. The salad can be made with dried cannellini beans or, in a pinch, canned white beans.

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Summer Bulgur and Green Bean Salad

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This lovely side dish of light, fluffy bulgur studded with bits of toasted almonds and crisp green beans is a wonderful alternative to rice.

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Green Bean Slaw

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In this salad, tender haricots verts get tossed with crunchy strips of carrot, red pepper and parsnip. When TV personality Rachael Ray (who is originally from upstate New York) visited the Beekman farm, Lee Woolver made a version of this salad with bacon, but it's just as delicious without.

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Green Bean-Tomato Salad with Herbs

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Salade Nicoise is one of the great summer dishes of Southern France. It's the centerpiece of a party that's all about sunny Mediterranean style, from the wine to the plates to the tea towels.

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Green Bean-and-Blood Orange Salad

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"Blood oranges are part of my Sicily fascination," Renato Poliafito says. He uses the segments to add color and tang to green beans and reduces the juice with balsamic vinegar to make the dressing.

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Farro and Green Bean Salad

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The Good News "The first time I tasted farro, it changed my life," says Melissa Kelly about the ancient grain that's rich in fiber, complex carbohydrates and magnesium. She's particularly fond of the nutty, chewy farro from Anson Mills, a Charleston-based company that's nationally famous for its grits (ansonmills.com).

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Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing

John Kernick

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This supersimple bean-and-tomato salad, tossed with a tarragon-flavored dressing, is perfect for summertime picnics, like the kind Paul Virant's mother would prepare when he was a child. "She would make tomato salad, potato salad and fried chicken the night before, so we'd have everything ready the next day," he says.

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Corn and Green Bean Salad

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This crunchy, colorful salad pairs blanched corn and green beans with an incredible dressing for a great throw-together meal.

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Potato-Green Bean Salad

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F&W's Kay Chun transforms her creamy potato salad with crisp green beans and a lovely tarragon-shallot vinaigrette.

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Green Bean-and-Roasted Red Pepper Salad

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Private chef Michael Emanuel's late-harvest salad gets its surprisingly meaty richness from the sliced red bell peppers he roasts in a clay oven; a broiler also works well.

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Shrimp and Green Bean Salad with Marjoram

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Curried Cauliflower and Green Bean Salad with Lemon Yogurt

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