Can you give me a good recipe for a salad?!
Can you give me a good recipe for a salad?
some thing nice a cool for this hot days of summer
Answers:
Here is a recipe for a lime chicken-avacado salad
mix together
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp honey
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
poor half the mixture over chicken in a bag, and put in refrigerator for an hour. save rest of mixture for later
4 (4 oz) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
grill the chicken on medium heat, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes on each side (170 F) chop into peices
1 ripe avocado, pitted, peeled, and sliced
1 cup grap tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped peeled and seeded cucumber
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
combine chicken, avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, and basil in large salad bowl, and toss gently with reserved lime mixture and serve.
here is another recipe for a Easy Summer Salad
4-6 cups Mixed salad greens, lightly packed, ( anything other than iceberg)
1 Asian pear
1 Or 3 small oranges
1 Garlic clove
1/4 c. Raspberry vinegar
2 tsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Dijon mustard
1/4 Red onion
1 Very small shallot
1 Small carrot (optional)
1 cup Croutons ( optional)
1/2 to 3/4 c. Olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
wash and dry greens, tear into bite sized pieces and place in refrigerator.
wash and peel asian pear, slice in half, core if neccessary and slice thinly any way you want. Place in a bowl.
wash and peel skin from oranges down to the flesh removing all pith. Using a sharp pearing knife, cut orange segments from the remaining membrane over the same bowl as the pear, squeezing out any extra juice. Discard the remaining membrane.
Mince the garlic and shallot, measure the sugar, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper, place all in a small bowl, stir and set aside.
Slice the onion and set aside.
After 10 mins or so, measure the oil, slowly drizzle into the vinegar mixture whisking all the while. As soon as an emulsion forms, set aside.
Remove greens, place in a large bowl, add onion slices, a sprinkling of salt, toss and add dressing, oranges and pears. Toss to coat and plate. Croutons and /or carrot may or not be added later.
Serve.
hope you will enjoy it.