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Mixed salad

Name: Mixed salad
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 cucumber; 4 tomatoes; 200 g mushrooms; 1 lettuce; 1 avocado; ½ lemon; ½ lime; 1 spring onion (scallion); 1 bunch chives; 100 ml french dressing (vinaigrette); Salt

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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Duration

1 hour

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

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.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 10 min.

Peel 4 tomatoes, dice small.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 10 min.

Take 200 g mushrooms, cut off the stalks and keep only the caps.

Peel, cut in two lengthways, then slice thinly.

Put in a bowl, add ½ lemon juice and mix well.

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.

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.

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!

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	1 g RDI=2 %	3 g RDI=1 %	5 g RDI=7 %	65 kcal RDI=3 %	273 kJ RDI=3 %
Per person	4 g RDI=7 %	14 g RDI=5 %	22 g RDI=31 %	277 kcal RDI=14 %	1,162 kJ RDI=14 %
Whole recipe	18 g RDI=29 %	58 g RDI=22 %	90 g RDI=124 %	1,110 kcal RDI=56 %	4,648 kJ RDI=56 %