Friday, September 30, 2011

Pineapple and Spinach Salad

I suddenly had this fit of inspiration and decided I wanted to do a Mango and Spinach Salad. Unfortunately my fit of inspiration was a few months too late so then i decided to settle for Spinach and Pineapple instead. This is a nice fun Salad to have and will give you lots of fun Caribbean sort of flavours. The winner in this though, is the dressing and you guys should feel really lucky I'm actually sharing this salad dressing with you!

Once again Thanks to Sarah for the beautiful pictures she always takes! Love you!

Salad requires: for 2 people
20 gm bean sprouts
Half a pineapple the skin, seeds and core (middle portion) removed and chopped up
Half a bunch of spinach leaves washed, dried and torn roughly by hand
Some crushed roasted peanuts for garnish (like 1 or 2 tablespoons)





For the dressing you will need:
1 clove garlic chopped fine
4 tbsp coconut milk
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp oil
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sugar

Method for the dressing:
Heat oil in a little vessel and add garlic and saute
Add chilli powder and saute some more
Add Coconut milk and sugar, mix and bring to a boil
Switch off the gas and add the Soya sauce

You will get this beautiful sweet salty and rich red liquid that almost resembles a very strong Red Thai Curry

To make the salad:
Mix all the Salad ingredients together, drizzle the salad dressing on top and garnish with crushed peanuts

Voila!

This is not the best picture of this as we had hungry guests at home that were downing this salad at an astonishing pace and we were trying to keep up so this photo was taken in a little bit of a hurry!


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