Showing posts with label Salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salad. Show all posts

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Green Mango & Carrot Salad

By my friend Venkat!

Ingredients

Carrots
Green Mangoes (preferably Thothapuri, the non-sour one)
Green chillies
Onion
Tomatoes
Salt
Lemon

Procedure

Grate or cut the carrots and mangoes into very fine pieces.
Chop onions, chillies and tomatoes into fine pieces.
Add salt and mix everything together.
Squeeze some lemon juice on to this. It's ready!

He says it's even tastier if you keep it for a few hours.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Pasta with Raw Fresh Tomato Sauce

Salsa di Pomodoro Cruda – Raw Fresh Tomato Sauce – serves 4

Ripe Tomatoes – 4 large chopped into small cubes with juices and skin
Garlic – 4 or 5 medium cloves chopped extra fine
Basil – two large handfuls of basil leaves, no stems, chopped VERY fine
Olive Oil – 8 tablespoons of Extra Virgin, preferably a nice dark green oil
Sea Salt – 1 tablespoon or to taste
Black Pepper – 1 to 2 tablespoon extra coarsely ground
Pecorino Romano Cheese – 8 heaping tablespoons, grated
Spaghetti or Macaroni – 1 lb.

Mix all of these (except for the pasta, naturally – just checking to see if you’re paying attention) into a large high sided bowl and allow them to marinate while you cook your pasta.
Stir the mixture well so that the tomatoes begin to macerate and watch to see if it thickens. If it doesn’t, add a bit more olive oil at a time until it does. A shallow dish will not do for this.
Cook your pasta until it is extra firm in well salted water. The second it is done, drain it well, and throw it into the raw tomato mixture and stir or toss like you would a salad, making sure every bit of pasta is covered with the mixture.

From here - http://thepastachannel.com/mediterranean-diet/

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Greek Salad

Forgot where I found this.

Ingredients
. Cos Lettuce/Iceberg Lettuce. 300 gms. Tear into small pieces
. Tomatoes: 200 gms. Cut into eight wedges
. Cucumber: 1- deseeded, cut into small cubes
. Small red onions: 2
. Black Olives: 40 gms - Pitted and halved
. Feta Cheese - 80 gms- CrumbledCan also use soya chunks instead

For the dressing
. Extra Virgin Olive oil - 60 ml
. Dijon Mustard - 15 gms
. Fresh lemon juice - 25 ml
. Seasoning - as required

Method
. Mix lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, red onions and black olives
. To make the dressing, whisk together the mustard, olive oil, lemon juice and then season it with salt and pepper.
. Pour the dressing over the salad
. Toss gently until ingredients are coated with dressing, serve soon.