Green Bean and Whole-Grain Penne Salad
This salad is all about contrasts in flavor and texture: chewy, nutty pasta mingled with crisp, sweet green beans and strewn with bits of crunchy bacon and creamy Roquefort.
- Time: 40 min
Source: Sunset Magazine
Ingredients
- pounds green beans, stems trimmed and cut into 1 1/2-in. lengths
- ounces whole-grain penne, rotini, rotelle, or fusilli pasta
- mayonnaise
- About 1/3 lb. Roquefort cheese
- tablespoons red wine vinegar
- tablespoons each finely chopped flat-leaf parsley and finely chopped chives
- crisply cooked thick slices bacon, crumbled
- teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Salt