How To Make Fava Bean Salad with Roasted-Garlic Vinaigrette
Whip up a fiber and protein rich side dish in this fava bean salad recipe, made with corn, cucumber, and feta cheese, tossed in a garlic vinaigrette.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Vinaigrette:
- 1headgarlic
- 1tbspextra virgin olive oil
- 3tbspred wine vinegar
- ¾tspcoarse salt
- ¼tspred pepper flakes
- ¾cupwalnuts
- freshly ground pepper,to taste
For Salad:
- 1lbfresh fava beans,shucked
- 2cupsfresh corn kernels
- 1medium cucumber
- ½cupred onion
- 2tbspfresh flat leaf parsley,chopped
- 2ozfeta cheese
Instructions
Vinaigrette:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Drizzle garlic with 1 teaspoon oil. Wrap in parchment, then in foil.
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Bake for about 30 minutes until soft. Squeeze garlic from skins. Mash until smooth.
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Whisk together the remaining ingredients with 1 tablespoon of the roasted garlic and remaining oil.
Salad:
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Prepare an ice-water bath. Cook beans in a large pot of boiling water for 2 minutes.
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Using a slotted spoon, transfer beans to ice-water bath. Let cool completely, and remove with the slotted spoon.
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Cook the corn in same pot for 1 minute, and drain in a colander. Peel thin shells off beans.
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Toss the cucumber, onion, parsley, feta, beans, and corn with the vinaigrette.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 305.22kcal
- Fat: 8.91g
- Saturated Fat: 2.93g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.52g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.57g
- Carbohydrates: 47.87g
- Fiber: 11.60g
- Sugar: 15.43g
- Protein: 15.23g
- Cholesterol: 12.62mg
- Sodium: 520.31mg
- Calcium: 160.59mg
- Potassium: 778.88mg
- Iron: 2.85mg
- Vitamin A: 57.35µg
- Vitamin C: 13.86mg
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