Starters & Light meals

Heerenbone salad

Name: Heerenbone salad
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Starters & Light meals
Ingredients: heerenbone or butter beans, soaked overnight and cooked 200 g,dill, chopped 3T,Italian parsley, chopped 2T,mint, chopped 2 T,can Woolworths smoked mussels in canola oil 1 x 115 g ,For the celery pesto: ,garlic 2 cloves,extra virgin olive oil 1⁄4 cup,celery, chopped 2stickes,a handful celery leaves, chopped ,lemon juice 2 T,salt, to taste

By Abigail Donnelly

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 5 minutes, plus overnight soaking time

cooking Time 30 minutes

“South Africans love a bean salad, and it doesn’t get much better than this version made with heerenbone, heirloom beans from the Sandveld. The inspiration for this dish comes from Kobus van der Merwe’s Wolfgat restaurant in Paternoster, but this is my pared-back version.” – Abigail Donnelly

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Ingredients

Method

200 g heerenbone or butter beans, soaked overnight and cooked
3 T dill, chopped
2 T Italian parsley, chopped
2 T mint, chopped
1 x 115 g can Woolworths smoked mussels in canola oil

For the celery pesto:

2 cloves garlic
1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 stickes celery, chopped
a handful celery leaves, chopped
2 T lemon juice
salt, to taste

Method

Ingredients

1. Mix the beans and herbs.

2. Blend the celery pesto ingredients and season.

3. To serve, drizzle the pesto over the beans and spoon over the mussels and oil.

Cook's note: Heerenbone, also known as goewerneursboontjies, are a heritage variety of lima bean still grown in parts of the Cape. If you can’t find them, use butter beans instead.

Find more bean recipes here.

Photographs: Jan Ras
Production: Abigail Donnelly and Kate Wilson
Food assistants: Emma Nkunzana and Josh Van Zyl

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Recipe by: Abigail Donnelly

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