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Grandma’s Fresh Green Bean Potato Salad Recipe

Filed under: Grandma's Recipes — kthomas at 8:56 pm on Wednesday, July 27, 2005

During the summer months, Grandma always had plenty of fresh green beans and new potatoes, so it is no surprise that she had several recipes for cooking green beans. This was one of her favorites

Ingredients:

Salad:

2 pounds new potatoes
3 cups fresh green beans
1 cup tomatoes
Small sweet onion
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon of parsley
6 hardboiled eggs

Dressing:

1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons red or balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons honey mustard

Directions:

1. Cook potatoes until tender (approximately 15 minutes) and cut them into quarters. Let cool.
2. Cook green beans approximately 5 minutes. Drain and let cool.
3. Quarter tomatoes.
4. Chop onion.
5. Combine potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, onion, salt, pepper and parsley.
6. Combine dressing ingredients and toss with potato salad.
7. Garnish salad with hardboiled egg slices.
Serves 4 to 6 people

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