This delicious salad will pop with freshness in your mouth. A play on slaw with some extra treats, all dressed up with a light yet satisfying dressing. Make it tonight.
Enough for two, my favourite amount :)
Slaw salad
1/8 green cabbage - sliced thinly
Two handfuls mixed leaves - chopped
1/4 cup flat parsley - chopped
10 cornichons chopped, these are tiny gherkins
1 large T of low fat thick Greek yogurt
1 small lemon juiced
2 boiled eggs (to your liking)
Shaved grana pandano cheese (a younger sweeter parmasean)
Walnuts chopped
In the bottom of a sald bowl combine the yogurt, lemon juice, parsely, salt and pepper. This is your dressing.
Place the cabbage, mixed leaves, cornichons into the bowl and mix well into the dressing.
Plate up with the quartered boiled eggs, walnuts and cheese.
Simple and delicious.
I've never bought ricotta before, and at the supermarket today whilst having a good peruse of the cheese section found a nice little pottle at a reduced price of only $3. I do love my bargains, and the ricotta had a good six days to go till its use by date. I happily popped it in my trolly along with some bocconcini and grana padano.
Once home and being peckish I decided to whip up a bit of an early dinner consisting of the following. Use as much of the following ingredients as you need for the amount of people you have. i.e I made enough for two servings.
Salami, cut into chunks and fry till crispy. Drain off the oil once it's almost done and add the tomato. Cook for a min or two longer then turn off the heat and stir through red capsicum, chopped basil, spinach and rocket, a tablespoon of ricotta (per serving). Stir everything together
At the same time boil a pot of water and add (preferably home made) pasta, recipe here.
Once you're done, add a tablespoon or so of the pasta water to the mixture in the frypan. Serve with a drizzle of lemon juice and some toasted nuts (I forgot these unfortunately on mine)
