Thursday, January 7, 2010

Salads and More!

Healthy food can be fun as well! It doesn't have to be boring boiled stuff. This is a salad that I made last night with a few simple easy steps and ingredients and it was really fresh and wonderful!

It's my twist on the classic tomato mozzarella salad-

Ingredients for 8 people:
1 packet of bocconchini cheese (you don't have to use all of it - depending on how strict you want to be on your diet)
1 head of Salad leaves
1 packet of Mushrooms (if you can get Porcini mushrooms for this they give a great flavour to the food)
1 1/2 packet cherry tomatoes (put as much or as little as you like depending on how much you love them)

For the dressing:
2 tbsp Olive oil
Chilli flakes or powder
A good Dash of salt
2 pods garlic finely chopped or crushed
2 tsp Balsamic Vinegar

Total bill at Nature's Basket for raw ingredients: INR 289 (cost - 36 bucks a head)

Method

Wash all the veggies
Break with your hand to make bite sized pieces of the salad leaves
Half the cherry tomatoes
slice the mushrooms and saute in a pan with salt pepper and if you have a bottle of mixed hearbs at home you can use that. (I just used a dash from the dried oregano packets you get for pizza deliveries). Put the flame on high and hear the mushrooms "sing" to you and then switch off the heat when done. Put in a colander when done to drain off excess water.
cut the Bocconcini into quarters as well

Whiz all the dressing ingredients together with a fork.

Mix all the Veggies together in a large bowl
Drizzle dressing on top
mix it all in gently together
VoilĂ  you're ready to go!



No comments:

Post a Comment