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No
Frills Salad
Sometimes
I've been eating a salad with a few really tasty,
enjoyable little bits, dispersed amongst mountains of
nasty leaves. Don't get me wrong, leaves are good but
like anything else if it's not top quality, it doesn't
taste great. So I would find myself discarding the
leaves and scooping up the bits soaked in dressing,
which is what I was really after, so I made a whole dish
like it.
You
need - for1 enormous or 2 normal salads:
a few leaves of radicchio chopped finely
1 shredded head of chicory
15 cherry tomatoes quartered
10cm of cucumber sliced and quartered
2 sticks of celery diced
1/4 of a
yellow pepper diced
1 handful of grapes quartered
100g boiled rice (leftovers?)
large handful of croutons (roast
dinner soup)
2 tbsp sultanas
a few slices Parma ham torn up
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp mayonnaise
salt and pepper
cress
parsley finely chopped
Mix
the first 10 ingredients in a large serving bowl. In a
different bowl mix the vinegar, oil, mayonnaise, parsley
and cress, season to taste. Drizzle this over the salad,
and toss. Drape the Parma ham over the top and serve.
The
sultanas make lovely little surprises in occasional
mouthfuls, and somehow taste sweeter than usual. The
grapes and yellow peppers are a fantastic combination.
You must try this salad.
Obviously the ingredients in this salad are optional, if
you don't like something leave it out if you
particularly like something give it a larger quantity.
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