RECIPE: Supper Salad
Friday, March 18th, 2011 | No Comments »Supper Salads are a great way to make good use of the veggies in your box this week. Delicious, nutritious, light and easy. You can have your older children chopping vegetables, younger children can help with washing veggies and adding vegetables to the salad bowl and tossing. By adding left over chicken from the lemon roasted chicken legs and hard cooked eggs you will have a nutritiously complete meal. You can also add raisins, cranberries, chopped apples, walnuts, chick peas, shaved parmesan or asiago – whatever is on hand. I like to put the additions in separate decorative bowls on the dinner table and allow the family to create their own individual salads.
Ingredients for salad
- Red Lettuce
- red cabbage
- carrots
- cucumber
- tomato
- onion
- arugula
- pea tendrils
Preparation
Salad
- Wash lettuces in bowl or sink full of cold water. Drain and repeat.
- Spin or pat dry with paper towels.
- Tear lettuces into bite size pieces and set aside.
- Wash veggies in bowl or sink full of cold water.
- Scrub and peel carrots with potato peeler.
- Chop vegetables into bite size pieces. (All vegetables should be pretty much the same size) I like to cut onions smaller than other vegetables and place in small bowl on table as an extra for those who like the bite of onion in their salads
- Chop chicken and hard cooked eggs into pieces the same size as vegetables.
- You just need a small amount of dressing. We recommend using one of the Destiny Organic Dressings
You could also whisk together the following ingredients to make a very nice little vinaigrette.
Dressing
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Whisk together in a small bowl or place all ingredients in jar and shake vigorously
Serving
- Place about ½ of dressing in the bottom of your salad bowl.
- Add all ingredients except for those you wish to use as additions on your table.
- Toss gently until all ingredients are well coated.
- Add more dressing if desired.
- Serve with warmed crusty baguette or whole grain bread.
Enjoy!!
