String bean salad with mussels

Bright and healthy vegetable salad with mussels. This vegetable salad is light, but also nutritious thanks to mussels and string beans. Mussels go well with vegetables and salad dressing. For the salad, you can take other seafood: squid or shrimp.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 36 % 4 g
Fats 18 % 2 g
Carbohydrates 45 % 5 g
52 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To prepare a salad of string beans with mussels, you will need: string beans, mussels, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, parsley, basil, sesame, salt, olive oil, lemon juice, soy sauce.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the string beans, remove the tips from both sides of each pod. Boil the beans in salted boiling water for 7-8 minutes. Drain the water, cool the beans, cut each pod into 3 parts.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Rinse frozen mussels under running water, put them in boiling salted water, wait for boiling. Turn down the heat, cook the mussels for 1 minute. Mussel meat is tender, so you should not exceed the cooking time so that the taste qualities of seafood are not lost.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Remove the finished mussels with a slotted spoon, let cool.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Wash bell pepper, dry, remove seeds, cut into strips.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Wash parsley and basil, dry, finely chop.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Sesame fry in a dry pan until light golden brown.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Combine the beans, mussels, bell peppers, herbs, mix.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Put the vegetables with mussels on a plate. You can optionally use lettuce leaves for decoration.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Wash tomatoes, dry, cut into 2 or 4 parts.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Put the tomato slices on top of the salad.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Sprinkle sesame seeds on the salad.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    For dressing, mix soy sauce, lemon juice, olive oil, mix well.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Pour the dressing over the salad and serve immediately. Enjoy your meal!

To prepare a salad, it is better to use young tender bean pods. More mature beans cook a little longer and have a slightly different taste.
It is better not to digest beans, so as not to lose some of its useful properties.
Compared to other varieties of string beans, it contains less protein, but is very rich in vitamins. It has a low calorie content and is used to prepare dietary dishes.

To prepare a salad, you can use freshly frozen beans, all the useful substances are preserved in it.

Mussels contain a large amount of easily digestible protein, macro- and microelements. They add a zest to the salad and enrich it with useful properties.

At first, only beans were consumed in Europe. But later people decided to try the unripe pods, which turned out to be very edible. Then they began to breed varieties of beans, the pods of which would be non-rigid. And the attempts were successful. The variety bred by experts was called French beans.
The French also call green beans buttery. Probably because of its tenderness and juiciness.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Dried whole sesame seeds - 563   kcal/100g
  • Shelled sesame seed - 582   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • String beans - 24   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • Cherry tomatoes - 15   kcal/100g
  • Frozen Mussels - 82   kcal/100g

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