I love salads. Salads are easy to make everyone I know make their salads a little bit different. This is how I do my staple salad, my go to salad so to say. I eat this at least once a week.
It is healthy and so tasty! Just look at all those colors!
Here is what you need:
- 1 pack rucola.
- 1 pack lolla rosa.
- 1 romain heart.
- 400 g cherry tomatoes.
- 1 red union.
- 1/2 (or more if you like) cucumber.
- 300 g kidney beans.
- 300 g. corn.
- 1 grilled chicken.
- 1 jar of sundried tomatoes.
First step, find a clean salad bole. This is mine. Its from Hadeland Glassverk which is one of my favorite glass designers. My grandmother gave it to me. I love it. Especially the gold specks in the blue bottom.
Add the lettuce. I know it is becoming more and more popular to skip the lettuce and just add more of the other ingredients in salads these days, but to me a salad needs salad. I like to mix rucola, lolla rosa and romain hearts. Remember to rinse them well before adding!
Rocola (also known as rocket) has a very strong taste, a bitter aftertaste and is very good for the ingestion system. Lola rosa is a pretty, frilly, deeply curled lettuce with red edges. The fun one! It has a mild flavor. The romain hearts are juicy and very crispy. These three lettuce types compliments each other very well in my opinion. Both the romain hearts and the lola rosa have big leaves so you should tear them. Green is such a beautiful color! Blend all three lettuce types.
Chop the tomatoes in boats, the onion as fine as you like and rinse of the beans.
A salad needs tomatoes and I prefer cherry tomatoes. They are so sweet and yummy. Tomatoes are great because they are low on calories and rich on vitamin A and vitamin C. They also contain powerful antioxidants which is suppose to hinder development of prostate cancer. If I have guests I'll cut them in 4, but if it's just me I'll just cut them i half. I don't have patience to cut and cut. Red onion is a must for me in salads. It as a milder taste then regular onion and contains some vitamin A, B and C.
Starting to look pretty yummy right? I just love it when my plate is bursting with color! Next to add is cucumber and corn. Sometimes I skip the corn, as it contains a lot of starch which is not good when you want to loose weight. But I use it for special occasions, such as now... showing you! I like my cucumber diced, but you can cut it anyway you prefer.
Of course a chicken salad requires chicken. For many the most important ingredient, but not for me. I enjoy veggie salads to. But chicken is tasty, especially the one I get at the local grocery store grilled to perfection. They sell the're grilled rather cheap and today I walked in an hour before closing time an got 50 % of! Got to love that. This whole yummy chicken for $3,50. To keep the meal I take all the skin of and give it to my puppy, it's all butter and grease. Then I just cut the meat of the bone, shred it and add it to the bole.
The final ingredient, sun-dried tomatoes. It's important that this is added last because when you get it on glass the oil they are lying in will be the dressing! Be sure to pour it all over the top so that it can run from the top of the salad and down. If you can't buy jarred sun-dried tomatoes there is no need to worry, you can make the dressing your self. When you do big salad, like I have here, then what is in the jar may not be enough and you might want to ass a little more to. It is easy, I picked this up in Spain. You just add a little bit of vinegar about 1 - 1 1/2 teaspoons of vinegar, 1-2 table spoons of sunflower oil and then 3-4 table spoons of olive oil. The measurements here are not set in stone, normally I just do it by taste. Just be sure not to add to much vinegar!
And voila! It is done! Bon appetite!
Here is what you need:
- 1 pack rucola.
- 1 pack lolla rosa.
- 1 romain heart.
- 400 g cherry tomatoes.
- 1 red union.
- 1/2 (or more if you like) cucumber.
- 300 g kidney beans.
- 300 g. corn.
- 1 grilled chicken.
- 1 jar of sundried tomatoes.
First step, find a clean salad bole. This is mine. Its from Hadeland Glassverk which is one of my favorite glass designers. My grandmother gave it to me. I love it. Especially the gold specks in the blue bottom.
Add the lettuce. I know it is becoming more and more popular to skip the lettuce and just add more of the other ingredients in salads these days, but to me a salad needs salad. I like to mix rucola, lolla rosa and romain hearts. Remember to rinse them well before adding!
Rocola (also known as rocket) has a very strong taste, a bitter aftertaste and is very good for the ingestion system. Lola rosa is a pretty, frilly, deeply curled lettuce with red edges. The fun one! It has a mild flavor. The romain hearts are juicy and very crispy. These three lettuce types compliments each other very well in my opinion. Both the romain hearts and the lola rosa have big leaves so you should tear them. Green is such a beautiful color! Blend all three lettuce types.
Chop the tomatoes in boats, the onion as fine as you like and rinse of the beans.
A salad needs tomatoes and I prefer cherry tomatoes. They are so sweet and yummy. Tomatoes are great because they are low on calories and rich on vitamin A and vitamin C. They also contain powerful antioxidants which is suppose to hinder development of prostate cancer. If I have guests I'll cut them in 4, but if it's just me I'll just cut them i half. I don't have patience to cut and cut. Red onion is a must for me in salads. It as a milder taste then regular onion and contains some vitamin A, B and C.
Starting to look pretty yummy right? I just love it when my plate is bursting with color! Next to add is cucumber and corn. Sometimes I skip the corn, as it contains a lot of starch which is not good when you want to loose weight. But I use it for special occasions, such as now... showing you! I like my cucumber diced, but you can cut it anyway you prefer.
Of course a chicken salad requires chicken. For many the most important ingredient, but not for me. I enjoy veggie salads to. But chicken is tasty, especially the one I get at the local grocery store grilled to perfection. They sell the're grilled rather cheap and today I walked in an hour before closing time an got 50 % of! Got to love that. This whole yummy chicken for $3,50. To keep the meal I take all the skin of and give it to my puppy, it's all butter and grease. Then I just cut the meat of the bone, shred it and add it to the bole.
The final ingredient, sun-dried tomatoes. It's important that this is added last because when you get it on glass the oil they are lying in will be the dressing! Be sure to pour it all over the top so that it can run from the top of the salad and down. If you can't buy jarred sun-dried tomatoes there is no need to worry, you can make the dressing your self. When you do big salad, like I have here, then what is in the jar may not be enough and you might want to ass a little more to. It is easy, I picked this up in Spain. You just add a little bit of vinegar about 1 - 1 1/2 teaspoons of vinegar, 1-2 table spoons of sunflower oil and then 3-4 table spoons of olive oil. The measurements here are not set in stone, normally I just do it by taste. Just be sure not to add to much vinegar!
And voila! It is done! Bon appetite!
Here is what you need:
- 1 pack rucola.
- 1 pack lolla rosa.
- 1 romain heart.
- 400 g cherry tomatoes.
- 1 red union.
- 1/2 (or more if you like) cucumber.
- 300 g kidney beans.
- 300 g. corn.
- 1 grilled chicken.
- 1 jar of sundried tomatoes.
First step, find a clean salad bole. This is mine. Its from Hadeland Glassverk which is one of my favorite glass designers. My grandmother gave it to me. I love it. Especially the gold specks in the blue bottom.
Add the lettuce. I know it is becoming more and more popular to skip the lettuce and just add more of the other ingredients in salads these days, but to me a salad needs salad. I like to mix rucola, lolla rosa and romain hearts. Remember to rinse them well before adding!
Rocola (also known as rocket) has a very strong taste, a bitter aftertaste and is very good for the ingestion system. Lola rosa is a pretty, frilly, deeply curled lettuce with red edges. The fun one! It has a mild flavor. The romain hearts are juicy and very crispy. These three lettuce types compliments each other very well in my opinion. Both the romain hearts and the lola rosa have big leaves so you should tear them. Green is such a beautiful color! Blend all three lettuce types.
Chop the tomatoes in boats, the onion as fine as you like and rinse of the beans.
A salad needs tomatoes and I prefer cherry tomatoes. They are so sweet and yummy. Tomatoes are great because they are low on calories and rich on vitamin A and vitamin C. They also contain powerful antioxidants which is suppose to hinder development of prostate cancer. If I have guests I'll cut them in 4, but if it's just me I'll just cut them i half. I don't have patience to cut and cut. Red onion is a must for me in salads. It as a milder taste then regular onion and contains some vitamin A, B and C.
Starting to look pretty yummy right? I just love it when my plate is bursting with color! Next to add is cucumber and corn. Sometimes I skip the corn, as it contains a lot of starch which is not good when you want to loose weight. But I use it for special occasions, such as now... showing you! I like my cucumber diced, but you can cut it anyway you prefer.
Of course a chicken salad requires chicken. For many the most important ingredient, but not for me. I enjoy veggie salads to. But chicken is tasty, especially the one I get at the local grocery store grilled to perfection. They sell the're grilled rather cheap and today I walked in an hour before closing time an got 50 % of! Got to love that. This whole yummy chicken for $3,50. To keep the meal I take all the skin of and give it to my puppy, it's all butter and grease. Then I just cut the meat of the bone, shred it and add it to the bole.
The final ingredient, sun-dried tomatoes. It's important that this is added last because when you get it on glass the oil they are lying in will be the dressing! Be sure to pour it all over the top so that it can run from the top of the salad and down. If you can't buy jarred sun-dried tomatoes there is no need to worry, you can make the dressing your self. When you do big salad, like I have here, then what is in the jar may not be enough and you might want to ass a little more to. It is easy, I picked this up in Spain. You just add a little bit of vinegar about 1 - 1 1/2 teaspoons of vinegar, 1-2 table spoons of sunflower oil and then 3-4 table spoons of olive oil. The measurements here are not set in stone, normally I just do it by taste. Just be sure not to add to much vinegar!
And voila! It is done! Bon appetite!
