Archive for the ‘Salads’ Category

Blue cheese and potato salad

Serves 4. Delicious served on it’s own or with grilled steak or chicken. Ingredients Salad 8 small new potatoes 6 cups mixed salad leaves 1 medium cucumber, diced 3 tomatoes, diced 1/2 cup walnuts, toasted 20 black olives 150g blue cheese Dressing 2 tbs olive oil 1 tbs walnut oil 1 tbs sherry vinegar salt [...]

Chargrilled lamb and vegetable salad

You could use eggplant, Spanish onion and pumpkin for this recipe as well. Ingredients 1/3 cup toasted pine nuts 500g lamb backstrap 2 zucchini, sliced lengthways 1 red capsicum, quartered, deseeded, cut into thin strips baby spinach 50g parmesan shavings (or feta) Turkish bread, to serve Dressing 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 cup fresh basil [...]

Blue cheese salad dressing

This dressing would be delicous served with a salad of baby cos lettuce, crispy pancetta, semi dried tomatoes, walnuts and avocado. Also lovely on roast or steamed potatoes. Yum! This recipe is for 12 as an accompaniment and will keep for up to 1 day in a sealed container in the fridge. Ingredients 75g blue [...]

Balsamic lamb with beetroot salad

Stuart made this, complete with herbed turkish bread and it was on the table in 30 minutes. Really easy and really delicious! Ingredients 2 tbs balsamic vinegar 2 garlic clove, crushed 1 tsp chopped rosemary 2 tsp olive oil 500g lamb backstrap 200g drained canned baby beets, quartered chopped fetta cheese baby spinach leaves toasted [...]

Caesar salad dressing

Ingredients 3/4 cup whole egg mayonnaise 1 tbs lemon juice 4 drained anchovy fillets, drained, chopped finely 3 tsp Dijon mustard 1 tbs water Directions Combine ingredients above. Serve with typical caesar salad ingredients such as cos lettuce, parmesan, croutons, cooked chicken or bacon.

Vietnamese salad dressing/ dipping sauce

This sauce is delicious served with barbequed steak or poached chicken and salad ingredients such as mixed salad leaves, finely sliced cabbage, grated carrot, tomatoes, cucumber, Spanish onion etc. To add extra crunch use fried noodles or crushed peanuts, and to increase the flavour add fresh coriander and mint leaves, and/ or finely sliced kaffir [...]

Prawn and mango salad

This looks like a yummy dish. Will have to try this soon I think. Ingredients 1 red onion, halved, coarsely chopped 1/4c tomato paste 4 garlic cloves, crushed 1 small red chilli, finely chopped 1 lemon, rind grated 2 tsp grated fresh ginger 1 tsp tumeric 1 tbs fish sauce 1 tsp sesame oil 2 [...]

Tabouli

Ingredients 160 (1 1/2c) burghul 1 1/2c boiling water 250g cherry tomatoes 1 bunch mint 1 bunch parsley, chopped 6 green shallots, sliced OR purple onion Directions Cover burghul with boiling water. Set aside for 10 minutes. 2. Mix in remaining ingredients. Dress with lemon juice, olive oil and garlic if desired. Serve with Lemon [...]

Duck (or chicken) and hazlenut salad with red wine vinegar dressing

Ingredients 1 cup hazelnuts 4 duck or chicken breast fillets 2 tsp sichuan peppercorns, crushed salt and pepper 1/3c olive oil 1/4c red wine vinegar 1 tbs dijon mustard 1 tsp brown sugar 100g snow pea sprouts 2 carrots, cut into matchsticks 2 pears, peeled, matchsticks lettuce Directions Toast nuts. Sprinkle breasts with peppercorns, cook [...]

Mixed bean and grape tomato salad (Serves 8 as accompaniment)

Ingredients 2 x 600g pkts frozen broad beans 800g green beans 1/3c fresh lemon juice 2 tsp dijon mustard 1/2 tsp caster sugar 350g ctn marinated feta, drained, oil reserved salt and pepper 2 x 200g punnets red grape tomatoes, halved Directions Cook broad beans and green beans in salted boiling water for 2-3 minutes [...]