Green Bean Craze-e

Total Time: 19 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 4 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb green runner beans
• 1/2 lb french style green bean, halved
• 2 cups fresh garden peas, shelled
• 1 cup green fava beans, shelled
• 5 scallions, sliced
• 8 radishes, sliced
• 1 cup feta cheese, cubed
• 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 navel orange, juice and zest
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh chives, snipped
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon walnut oil
• salt
• pepper
• 2 tablespoons fresh mint, torn
• 2/3 cup plain yogurt

Recipe

• 1 trim green beans removing strings and cut in two.
• 2 cook in salted boiling water for four minutes.
• 3 add in the french beans, shelled fava beans and shelled peas.
• 4 note here: sometimes it takes fava beans a little longer to cook than the peas, depends on how young and tender they are, so you may want to add them to the first green beans.
• 5 cook another four minutes or just until all are tender.
• 6 drain and rinse in cool iced water to stop cooking.
• 7 remove and place all cooked beans to a large bowl or platter.
• 8 add the sliced scallions, the snipped chives, and radishes.
• 9 add in the feta cheese cubes either now, or after the dressing, as not to break up too much when tossing .
• 10 mix together the juice of orange, the olive oil, the walnut oil, and seasonings.
• 11 pour over the garden vegetables and toss lightly.
• 12 mix the orange zest, mint and yogurt together in a separate bowl.
• 13 at serving time, pour over the yogurt dressing and serve.