This is a great fresh, zingy, tasty salad. I love how fresh and healthy asian salads are. You can really use whatever you have in the fridge, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers and onions etc. I’m not a fan of raw onion in a salad as it repeats on me a bit so I use radish instead….
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Simple Left Over Roast Beef, Lentil and Watercress Salad with a Mustard and Thyme Dressing Recipe
Got some left over beef or chicken from the weekend? This salad is simple but really tasty. All the flavours work well together, tasty beef, earthy lentils, fiery watercress all brought together from a sharp slightly sweet dressing. This is really easy to put together once you have cooked the lentils. Delicious! Ingredients (serves 2)…
Southern Baked Chicken and Vegetable Salad Bowl with a Lime, Ginger and Chilli Dressing Recipe
So I made my own southern seasoning and wanted to try it out. This salad was so fresh, tasty and zingy I couldn’t get enough of it. This is also the first time I have tried South American black beans they were also delicious. I had mine in my lunchbox and it worked perfectly. Ingredients…
Roasted and Pickled Golden Beetroot Salad Recipe
Trying to be efficient and save money we are going to the greengrocers once a week and the butcher and fishmongers once a month. It is working really well and pushes us to try new vegetables and recipes. When we went this week they had some gorgeous local golden beetroots. I have had lightly pickled…
Tuna, Wild Rice, Sweetcorn and Soya Bean Salad with a light Mustard Dressing Recipe
This lunch worked really well in my lunchbox and it is an easy tasty satisfying salad. Tuna rice and beans go so well together and I love the salty hit from the capers. The mustard dressing lifts all of the flavours and gives a really nice background flavour. Ingredients (serves 2) 80g wild rice, cooked…
Roasted Vegetables and Goat’s Cheese Salad with a Herb Dressing Recipe
So I’m back from Devon so gone are the pasties and cream teas. So I’m starting the week off at work with this yummy salad. You can use whatever vegetables you have left over from the weekend. The goats cheese adds little creamy mouthfuls and the herby dressing lifts and freshens up the salad. Ingredients…
Yakatori Chicken on a Vegetable Salad with a Palm Sugar, Chilli and Lime Dressing Recipe
Sometimes I really fancy a fresh and zingy salad. I tend to look towards asia for inspiration. I was in the supermarket and saw a jar of yakitori so thought I would give it a go, it was delicious the flavours were so tasty and it gave the chicken really nice crispy bits. The cornflour…
Black Pudding, Blue Cheese, Apple and Walnut Salad with a Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe
Black pudding is like marmite and I love marmite and I also love black pudding. I have wanted to try it in a salad for so long now. It worked really well. You get a big hit of flavour from the spiced black pudding, crunch from the walnuts, sharpness from the balsamic vinegar and it…
Brussel Sprout, Tofu and Udon Noodle Salad with a Miso Dressing Recipe
Miso has been on my radar for a while. Luckily Paulie had a meeting which was a near a large chinese supermarket so I sent him off with a list of asian goodies and white miso paste was one of them. When I first tasted it I thought wow that packs a salty punch but…
Roasted Cauliflower and Bulgur Wheat Salad with a Rosemary, Honey and Lemon Dressing Recipe
So I am back after being away in Germany for a week during christmas, the market food was amazing. So it’s back to salads and healthy eating. I really enjoyed this salad as roasting the cauliflower adds a really nice depth of flavour and you get hidden textures and tastes from the walnuts, sultanas and…
Fresh and Zingy Prawn Noodle Salad with a Soy Sauce and Lime Dressing Recipe
So as we have been eating a lot of christmas flavours recently I fancied something fresh and healthy but not too spicy. This worked a treat it is zingy and refreshing. It is so easy to keep a bag of soya beans in the freezer and grab a handful as and when you want to…
Giant Couscous, Chickpea and Chorizo Salad with an Orange and Pomegranate Dressing Recipe
I fancied a change from salad leaves and wanted to use up some store cupboard ingredients, so this salad was born. It was really tasty, the dressing was delicious it was sweet zingy and coated the couscous and chickpeas really nicely. I can eat chorizo with almost anything so those meaty slices made it more…
Skinny Coronation Chicken on a Brussel Sprout and Rocket Salad Recipe
This dish would be just as great using left over chicken or turkey. I love brussel sprouts season and I thought this combination would work really well. Guess what it was! It was creamy, lightly spiced and I love the sweet notes from the apricots. The brussel sprouts and chicken together reminded me of christmas…
Roasted Chilli and Fennel Squash Salad with Halloumi and a Lemon and Tarragon Dressing Recipe
I really enjoy winter salads. I think roasting some of the elements make it more comforting and homely. I love adding lots of herbs and spices to make it more warming for these cold days. This salad was so yummy and extremely balanced the lemon dressing lifts and marries all the ingredients together. This would…
Pea and Basil Pesto, Soya Bean and Bacon Salad Recipe
I love the combination of pea and bacon, they complement each other so well. I love soya beans too as you don’t have to shell them. I thought edamame beans were a different variety but its not it is just the name when the soya beans are in the pod! Pesto also works well in…
