Mixed salad
Mixed salad is one of those simple but delicious summer recipes which go so well with a barbeque. It's a mix of several fresh vegetables, herbs and French dressing (vinaigrette).
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011
Keywords for this recipe:For 4 people, you will need:
- 1
1 cucumber - 2
4 tomatoes - 3
200 g mushrooms - 4
1 lettuce - 5
1 avocado - 6
½ lemon - 7
½ lime - 8
1 spring onion (scallion) - 9
1 bunch chives - 10
100 ml French dressing (vinaigrette) - 11
salt - Total weight: 1,705 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 1 hour | 1 hour |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 10 min.
Peel 1 cucumber, dice small, put in a strainer over a bowl and sprinkle with.
We do that to remove the excess water from the cucumber.
We do that to remove the excess water from the cucumber.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
Stage 4 - 10 min.
Wash and drain 1 lettuce.
Take a handful of leaves, roll and slice thinly. Do this with the whole lettuce to produce fine ribbons.
Take a handful of leaves, roll and slice thinly. Do this with the whole lettuce to produce fine ribbons.
Stage 5 - 10 min.
Peel 1 avocado, cut each half in small dice.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Put diced avocado on mushrooms, add ½ lime juice and mix well.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Chopp finely 1 spring onion (scallion) and 1 bunch chives.
Stage 8 - 2 min.
Put everything in a salad bowl: lettuce, chives, onion, mushrooms, avocado, cucumber and tomatoes.
Stage 9 - 1 min.
Add French dressing to taste, mix well.
It's ready.
It's ready.
Remarks
Mixed salad can be varied infinite ways: you can add, remove, or change anything you like. Follow your imagination, or what you have in the fridge. The basic principle is this: mix fresh ingredients cut small with herbs and French dressing.
From there on, anything goes. Some suggestions: small cubes of cheese (feta, gruyère, cheddar), bacon or ham, cooked potatoes, etc.
Same thing for French dressing, you can use the classic one, or change the oil (sesame, walnut, ...), vinegar (balsamic, cider, maple, lime juice...), or add other tasty things: teaspoon of soya sauce, dash of Tabasco,... Even all of these!
From there on, anything goes. Some suggestions: small cubes of cheese (feta, gruyère, cheddar), bacon or ham, cooked potatoes, etc.
Same thing for French dressing, you can use the classic one, or change the oil (sesame, walnut, ...), vinegar (balsamic, cider, maple, lime juice...), or add other tasty things: teaspoon of soya sauce, dash of Tabasco,... Even all of these!
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 936 Kcal or 3,919 Kj | 19 gr | 56 gr | 73 gr |
| 47 % | 7 % | 5 % | 11 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 55 Kcal or 230 Kj | 1 gr | 3 gr | 4 gr |
| 3 % | <1 % | <1 % | 1 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 234 Kcal or 980 Kj | 5 gr | 14 gr | 18 gr |
| 12 % | 2 % | 1 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 4 people : 8.25 €
- Per person : 2.06 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Mushrooms: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Penne with Mushrooms, Chicken and mushroom pie, Mushroom duxelles, Chicken and mushroom brik rolls, Chicken pie, ... All |
 | French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Herb salad, Chicken club sandwich, Warm haricot bean salad, Cajun-style lentil salad, Tahitian salad, ... All |
 | Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Zucchini and tomato remoulade, Beans with tomatoes, Warm broccoli and Tuna Salad, Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Tomato feuilleté with pesto, ... All |
 | Lettuce: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Warm chicken salad, Spring radish and avocado salad, Valay salad, Green and red salad with sardines and eggs mimosa, Green avocado salad, ... All |
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