Name: Garlic-rubbed toasts with warm olive and green bean salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 baguette, halved lengthways, cut into 4; 1⁄2 cup extra virgin olive oil; 2 cloves garlic, halved; 4 eschalots, thickly sliced; 1⁄2 bunch thyme, finely chopped; • 1⁄4 tsp celery seeds; • 3⁄4 cup kalamata olives, pitted and halved; • 3⁄4 cup manzanilla olives, pitted and halved; • 2 Lebanese cucumbers, peeled, halved, deseeded, cut into fine wedges; • 1 cup green beans, sliced lengthways; • Juice of 1 lemon; • Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season; • 2 Tbsp tahini; • 2 Tbsp sour cream

Garlic-rubbed toasts with warm olive and green bean salad

With all the best flavours of the Italian garden, this mix of olives is for good reason – the green ones give acidity, while black olives give richness!

Serves 4

Prep

10M

Cook

15M

Total

25M

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Ingredients

1 baguette, halved lengthways, cut into 4

1⁄2 cup extra virgin olive oil

2 cloves garlic, halved

4 eschalots, thickly sliced

1⁄2 bunch thyme, finely chopped

• 1⁄4 tsp celery seeds

• 3⁄4 cup kalamata olives, pitted and halved

• 3⁄4 cup manzanilla olives, pitted and halved

• 2 Lebanese cucumbers, peeled, halved, deseeded, cut into fine wedges

• 1 cup green beans, sliced lengthways

• Juice of 1 lemon

• Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season

• 2 Tbsp tahini

• 2 Tbsp sour cream

Method

Preheat a barbecue grill to high or a chargrill pan over a high heat. Drizzle cut side of bread with 1⁄2 of the olive oil and grill, cut-side down, until lightly charred. Rub thoroughly with garlic.

Heat remaining oil in a medium frying pan over a low heat and add eschalot. Cook for 3 minutes or until lightly softened. Add thyme, celery seeds and olives, then cook for a further 3 minutes. Add cucumber and cook briefly until softened. Stir in beans and lemon juice, then season.

Spoon olive mixture on toasts. Mix tahini and sour cream together in a small bowl. Spoon over toasts, then sprinkle with pepper to serve.

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