summer's here....any salad recipes?

apprentice_tycoon

Has anyone got any salad recipes? my offering is sultanas soaked in orange juice mixed with lots of grated carrot, drizzle with olive oil, grind over some black pepper.

catznine

That sounds lovely AT. I am making a potato salad with leftover new potatoes and always add chopped up spring onion, in Germany they add chopped up ham as well. Another salad I like is:

Wardolf Salad

Few sticks of Celery - chopped up
Couple of nice eating apples - chopped up
Broken Walnuts
Salad Cream

Mix all together and chill until use.

Allexie

My favourite salad in the whole wide world is caesar salad...as in

St Delia's Caesar Salad

Must admit I've never actually made it cos it sounds such a faff...just order it in restaurants!

Does anyone have a cheats version

Noozan

I like beansprouts, lightly blanched and refreshed in cold water dressed with sesame oil, soy sauce, chilli, crushed garlic, pinch of sugar and then sesame seeds sprinkled on top.

Mixed salad leaves with orange segments and dressed with 50:50 balsamic vinegar and olive oil is tasty too.

Anne_Marie_2

Beetroot Slaw
Finely shredded cabbage
Finely chopped onion
Diced beetroot (either freshly cooked or pickled)
Mix all together with mayonnaise and little salt and pepper and lemon juice. It's delicious

Coleslaw
Shredded cabbage
Shredded/grated carrot
finely chopped onion
mayonnaise
little course grain mustard
lemon juice
salt and pepper

Mis all ingreds together and chill before serving.

apprentice_tycoon

Allexie - I made your Falafel tonight, they were great, thank you, I'll make them again!

They were served with HM granary bread, an 'english' salad with home grown lettuce, spinach and rocket plus the carrot, orange and sultana salad.

Pud was HM thick natural yogurt drizzled with a syrup made with scented red roses (this was a rose petal jam that didn't quite set, so I strained the petals out and the result is a thick magenta red syrup that takes wonderful)

Great grub!

Allexie

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Allexie - I made your Falafel tonight, they were great, thank you, I'll make them again!

They were served with HM granary bread, an 'english' salad with home grown lettuce, spinach and rocket plus the carrot, orange and sultana salad.

Pud was HM thick natural yogurt drizzled with a syrup made with scented red roses (this was a rose petal jam that didn't quite set, so I strained the petals out and the result is a thick magenta red syrup that takes wonderful)

Great grub!

Glad you liked the falafel, I usually have them with a dollop of yogurt with chopped fresh mint in it.

Ermmm...do we have the recipe for rose petal jam????

apprentice_tycoon

I have made it before and it has been lovely, especially with scones, it didn't set this time but that could have been because I was doing 3 things at the same time, plus until this time I had been making half the amount because it's hard to get hold of 10 roses at the same time if you don't have your own bushes (these were given by a friend).

ROSE PETAL JAM

10 large red scented roses
1lb jam sugar
6 fl oz water
juice of half a lemon

break up the roses and cut of the white ends of the petals to prevent bitterness, wash and shake dry
in a medium sized pan dissolve the sugar in the water, add the lemon juice and all the petals
simmer till the petals look glossy, crystallised and the jam has thickened, keep stirring, do not overcook or the petals will be tough.
Pot as for jam in the normal way or strain to get rose petal jelly.

If it doesn't set for any reason it makes a very nice syrup topping for yogurt or ice cream

Allexie

Thanks for the recipe apprentice tycoon......must have a go


I always have probs with jam...it's either syrup or it's rock-solid glue - never anything in-between!!!

apprentice_tycoon

Allexie wrote:

Thanks for the recipe apprentice tycoon......must have a go


I always have probs with jam...it's either syrup or it's rock-solid glue - never anything in-between!!!

I'm pretty confident with jam, I always use Jam Sugar because it's almost foolproof and make lots because I grow strawberries. I will have a go at this jam again when the rose bush produces again, I will try half the recipe next time

squeaky

There's a Sausage and Rice salad in our recipe index, not to mention a number of vegetarian options that might be adaptable