Cold Vegetable Salad with Spice Dressing

Serves 4
Ingredients:

300g green or snake beans
10 spinach leaves
80g snow pea (mange tout) sprouts
1 red pepper (capsicum)
1 red (Spanish) onion
100g bean sprouts, scraggly ends removed

Spice Dressing:
2 tbsp peanut oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp grated fresh ginger
1 small red chilli, chopped
2 tbsp desiccated coconut
1 tbsp brown vinegar
⅓ cup (80ml) water


Method:

• Top and tail the beans and cut them into 10cm lengths. Remove the stems from the spinach leaves and slice the leaves thinly. Remove about 1cm of the long stems from the snow pea sprouts. Cut the red pepper into thin strips. Finely slice the onion.
• Place the beans in a large pan of boiling water and cook for 1 minute to blanch; drain. Combine the beans, spinach, snow pea sprouts, bean sprouts, red pepper and onion in a bowl.
• To make Spice Dressing: Heat the oil in a small pan; add the garlic, ginger, chilli and coconut, and stir-fry over medium heat for 1 minute. Add the vinegar and water, and simmer for 1 minute. Allow to cool.
• To serve, add the dressing to the vegetables, and toss until combined.

Nutrition per serve:
Protein 10g
Fat 10g
Carbohydrate 5g
Dietary Fibre 10g
Cholesterol 0mg
725 kj (170 cal)