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Easy Summer Salads, Lighter Foods For A Brighter Summer By Mark Brading
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| Monday, February 2, 2009 |
Easy summer salads is a way, now that the winter blues are fading into the distance and salad days are here. Salads are the best light, bright and easy to prepare.
Who want to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen when friends are round for lunch, the garden in bloom and the wine is chilled and ready to pour. But before you start to cook, you can save a lot of energy by buying materials that right. That way you do not need the weight of bottled sauces and dressings to make the most sense. After all you do not want to take a beautiful crisp salad and hot soak in a mixture of fat, sugar, salt and chemicals do you?
If you start with the food and not make too much to them, you do not have all the strong taste. All you need is to combine it with good taste, so working together, have a nice crunchy texture and add a little light dressing to set everything off. Let the taste buds do the rest is fresh, as in all cooking, a good way for the salad.
Do not take what you give supermarket. Although it is easier to take the ready packed tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, bell peppers etc. To make sure you get the best, take a minute or two and choose the vegetables, choose the companies that cooked and ready for use. Of course the same applies to meat and fish. There are reasons why supermarkets before, and not always comfortable. So choose well, cook quickly and simply and your friends will not be completed at the time the wine you there! Enjoy a little hot right now with this easy poached chicken salad.
Easy poached chicken salad
Materials:
4 chicken breast (skinless)
1 red onion, finely sliced
1 whole half onion
4 good thick slices of ripe tomato
250 grams/4ozs mixed salad leaves
4ozs raisins soaked in hot water for ten minutes
1 half lemon
2 fresh or dried bay leaves
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 small French, stick loaf or slices in a similar angle into 1 / 2 inch slices
For the sauce:
1 / 4 cup olive oil
1clove garlic, crushed
1 / 2 dessert spoon Dijon mustard or light
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
To make the sauce:
Whisk the vinegar and mustard together with the garlic, slowly add olive oil while whisking and season with salt and pepper to taste.
To make salad:
Bring a pot of water to boil with bay leaves, 1 / 2 garlic, lemon and pepper.
Carefully add chicken and simmer until cooked carefully, if you do not believe that a few dollars worth of investment in the meat thermometer. The temperature must be at least 75 Fahrenheit celcius/167, placing slices of bread in the baking tray and drizzle with olive oil and season with salt. Bake in oven until medium brown but soft in the middle.
Mix with spring onion and raisins. Turn on the salad dressing and put into 4 good-sized bowl. Place slices of tomato and bread around alternatly The Edge. Slice the chicken warm in a corner and put on the salad. Sit back and enjoy other people to do the washing up.
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