Millet Salad with Green Beans and Za'atar

5 from 1 vote

Millet Salad with Green Beans and Za'atar

This Millet Salad features Za’atar which is a flavourful Middle Eastern spice blend that adds a beautiful aroma to this ancient seed along with the green beans just superb with the lime and coconut oil.

Prep Time15

Cook Time30

Total Time35

Course: Salad

Cuisine: Middle Eastern

Keyword: Intermediate

Servings: as a side

Calories: 313kcal

Author: Anastasia Papapetros

Ingredients

For the green beans…

600 grams green beans¹ (fresh or frozen)
3 tbsps coconut oil
2 tbsps Za’atar

For the millet…

1 red onion (diced)
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1 tablespoon Za’atar ²
1 cup millet

For the dressing…

tbsps Lime zest (approximately 2 limes)
⅓ cup lime juice (approximately 3 large limes)
3 tbsps coconut oil (melted)

For the garnish…

Thyme sprigs

Metric - Imperial

Instructions

To make your green beans...

Preheat the oven to 230°C (450°F).
Wash your beans, top, tail them, remove the strings and cut into 2.5cm (1-inch batons).
Place the beans, coconut oil and 2 tablespoons of Za’atar in a large oven tray and mix until the beans are well coated with the spice mixture. Cook until golden (approximately 20-30 minutes).

To make your millet...

In the meantime, heat a medium saucepan (medium-high heat) and add your millet and toast until golden (approximately 2-3 minutes). Stir it continuously so that it toasts evenly, you will hear the millet crackling (this is a sign of freshness). Add 2 cups of water to your millet, stir it and allow it to come to a rolling boil ³. Turn the heat down, put the lid on your saucepan and simmer for approximately 15 minutes. Take it off the heat. drain if necessary and fluff with a fork.
Heat a large deep frying pan, add the coconut oil until hot then add the onion and cook until translucent, then add the Za’atar until aromatic. Add the millet and stir until it is well coated with the spice and onion mixture. Leave on the side until cool.

Putting it together...

Add all the dressing ingredients in a small food processor and blitz until combined
In a large mixing bowl place the millet mixture, the beans and the dressing, then stir well until combined.
Arrange the millet and bean mixture in a salad platter and scatter the thyme sprigs on top to garnish. Serve immediately.

Notes

You can also use frozen green beans for this recipe, just make sure that you defrost, rinse, drain them well and pat them dry.
A middle Eastern spice blend, you will either find it in the spice section or ethnic food section at most larger supermarkets. Alternatively, pay a visit to a middle eastern speciality story.
A rolling boil is a vigorous state of maintained boiling in which large bubbles erupt continuously on the surface of the liquid and cannot be disrupted by stirring or adding ingredients. Clouds of steam roll off the surface of the water and the boil is audible.

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