[Closed] Please donate yr best salad recipe?

Salads need to be kept simple.
bag of salad
Few sprigs of asparagus (is sprig the right word?!)
1 poached egg
3 or 4 boiled and buttered new potatoes
Maybe a slice or 2 of crispy, streaky bacon
Grate a few slices of Parmesan on top and you’re sorted.

Or a simple, Greek salad.
Good tomatoes
Cucumber
Red onion
Shed load of feta
Lashings of good olive oil
Olives
Then throw over some dried oregano
Add good bread as you see fit.

Panzanella is an excellent summer salad-y thing

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Just the one! Sorry for various typos, blame edit-window stress

I like Pasta Salad, with butter fried chicken, Peppers, Spring Onion, Raddish, Avocado, Tomatoes, and other things that slip my mind. What really makes it though, is tearing up a load of Serrano ham and throwing that in. Just a bit of Mayo mixed in. Yum Yum.

Remove slugs, aphids, caterpillars & eat.

Diced watermelon, crumbled feta cheese and either fresh mint or basil, finely chopped. Decent splash of olive oil over the top. Goes great with meat-heavy BBQs. The feta is salty enough already, you don't need to add any more salt.

Finely chop an onion and fry it until starting to caramelise. Add a can of cooked+drained lentils, stir for a while then allow to cool. Crumble feta into it, then stir in a couple of teaspoons of mint sauce.

Or the classic: ripe tomato, make sure it's at room temp if you've been keeping it in the fridge, slice it, splash of olive oil and a decent amount of salt.

Chèvre Chaud has to be my favourite. Go for usual mixed salad leaves, tomatoes, cucumber. Toast some walnuts. Toast some sliced baguette and liberally spread goats cheese on and put in the oven or under the grill. Layer on top of the salad, drizzle with honey and decent home made vinaigrette. Finally sprinkle on the walnuts and personally I really like a handful of raspberries too. Best. Salad. Going.

My only additions to any/all would be gooseberry chutney and caperberries.

Or a simple, Greek salad.

This. Really hard to beat with the right ingredients (as listed).

Did a nice rice salad the other day. It was mostly copied from here.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mexican-rice-bean-salad

With added olives. Always something like olives, toasted seeds, lardons for flavour and you can't go far wrong.

Remove slugs, aphids, caterpillars & eat.

Then what do you do with the salad?

Grated carrots (lots)
Toasted pine nuts
Sliced mandarins
Fresh coriander
Feta
And top off with crushed poppadoms

Thank me later!

This is from Honey & co

For the salad
2 small red onions, peeled and sliced as thinly as possible
1 tsp sumac (or juice of 1 lemon)
seeds from 1 pomegranate
1 large bunch of parsley
pinch of salt
1 tbsp olive oil

Mix the ingredients about 45 minutes before serving.

Tabbouleh is great also, maybe inside some nice fresh gem lettuce.

Grapes for the win. See also nuts, seeds, and mackerel in olive oil. Dressin'? We don't need no stinking dressin'! 🙂

Add Waldorfs

(also, somewhere in deepest Ramsbottom, a man is having a salad induced heart attack just reading this. Expect big things on this weeks fat friday...)

I am a big fan o=f a greek salad.

leaves plus crunchy stuff ( celery, cucumber, peppers) plus some onions and green beans ( blanched). tomatoes that have been sat in salt and vinegar ( just a pinch and a splash) for a bit to make them yummy, olives load of olive oil over the top feta cheese in cubes

Take 1 wife to Waitrose
Wait in car for 30 - 40 minutes simmering gently in the heat
Remove wife from supermarket and place carefully into the kitchen
Take large Pimms into the garden and ponder life for approximately 45 minutes
Return to a beautiful salad ready to eat
Take a chilled bottle of white from the fridge and compliment the wife on how well we work together

Good call on a thread.
Mixed green leaves, nothing fancy, peas, a couple of boiled eggs sliced, salad cream.

lettuce marmite

Apple, grapes, nuts and some mixed leaves. Feta is always a winner too.

For authentic Greek salad just stick the full block on top of it 🙂

For authentic Greek salad just stick the full block on top of it don't let the wife shave for a month

There was an article in the Guardian recently on potato salads

This one is really nice

https://www.themediterraneandish.com/mustard-potato-salad/

We've recently taken to using Chinese cabbage in salads (it was initially bought to have a go at kimchi). That along with whatever is in the fridge makes up the salad du jour. So tonight:
Shredded Chinese cabbage
Sliced onion
Sliced mooli (white radish also bought with kimchi in mind)
Mix the above dress with french dressing.
Add on top sliced beetroot, tomato, sliced new potatoes, more dressing.
Top with tuna mixed with half a tin of mixed beans, sliced olives and capers.

We also had broccoli in danger of going yellow so sliced thinly, dressed with soy sauce/sesame oil mix. Served separately. Surprisingly pleasant raw.

Bottle of Vouvray.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/food/2021/jun/22/spuds-you-like-10-delicious-filling-fabulous-potato-salads

I've done a few of the recipes from The Mediterranean Dish and they have all been good.

A load of the lettuce of your choice, and some salt. If you're feeling fancy you can take the clipshears out of the lettuce

Some great ideas thnks and only one joke about salad = lettuce! Top notch 🙂, keep them coming, pastry-dodgers…

Apple & Walnut salad. (With blue cheese)

https://pinchofyum.com/honey-walnut-power-salad

I made this ^, with bulgur & dairy-free with Violife Greek white block. 💯 It totally twizzled the tastebuds (in a good way, ohmygod-UH!)

Another addition to any salad that's been ace= pan-fried almonds w/cinnamon & pan-fried cherry toms

fry the almonds in a splash of olive oil with the cinnamon for two minutes.

From Nigel Slater: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/almond_lentil_stew_69086

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Some great ideas thnks and only one joke about salad = lettuce!

It is my best salad recipe, as requested!

P7 for the win but we need space for fresh figs and balsamic

@Northwind

It is my best salad recipe, as requested!

for fresh figs and balsamic

Never tried that. Noticed recently that one of our neighbours have figs wasting on the tree, I’ll see if I can beat the birds to a few! #seedymanoeuvresafterdark

Thought about adding some fat juicy sultanas or some of those flame raisins, and maybe a few smoshed hazelnuts.

Figs, duck breast, spring onions honey, soy plus leaves of your choice

Thank me later!

Thanks! just had this for lunch and can confirm it's delicious!

Mine is a simple; Caprese; slice ripe tomato and mozzarella lay alternately on a plate, few basil leaves, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar dressing on top, salt/pepper to taste.

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It’s not rashioned I was half way through when I read the thread

Marouli salata

Romaine lettuce chopped

Mild onions

Jarred chickpeas

Cucumber

Fresh dill

Olive oil

Dill

Salt

Pepper.

Thank me later.

Went for an apple & walnut salad with blue cheese as a side this evening. And very nice it was, too.

Chips & Mushy Peas.

Punnet of Lidl Piccolo tomatoes, some vintage cheddar. Eat.
Add something else if you're feeling pretentious.

Two winners here ^ ( Even though think ‘piccolo’ sounds like a pretentious tomato)

Now I want chips.

#britishisbest
#classwarz
#sosijrollz
#poncense

The classic mozzarella, basil, tomato and Garlic olive oil, salt and pepper.

What Grum says, panzanella is awesome.

Love a Caesar salad too.

Anything with pasta, chicken and cured ham ain't no salad, just cos it's cold!

The British have made salad pish, when a right good one is a star of any meal.

My new band: The Pretentious Tomatoes 😁

(ps. they’re not, just small and delish)

growing up in the '70's we never got proper salad, lettuce cucumber and tomato with no dressing whatsoever
On another note in Scotland we had to endure Shippams meat paste or beans with crappy pink sausages disgusting it was, whereas hummus, olives,feta, halloumi and proper bread nowadays kids are spoilt for choice

Nigella chopped salad is lovely and any spare pomegranate seeds go into everything we eat that week:

1 cup each: diced Courgette and cucumber (deseeded)
4 thinly sliced spring onions, white and pale green parts only
1 1/4 cups deseeded diced tomatoes
1 clove garlic, peeled and minced
1 cup pomegranate seeds
1 tsp each: dried mint and dill
1 tsp sea salt, plus more to taste
Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
4 cups loosely packed roughly chopped Italian parsley

Add all ingredients except the parsley to a large mixing bowl and toss together very well. Let stand for 10 minutes. Add the parsley, toss again though, and serve

Greek salads all looking good so far….. except….

Loads of sliced red onion
Half a cucumber in chunky slices (cut in half lengthways, rake the skin with a fork then slice diagonally in random chunks)
Large ripe tomatoes sliced thin
Black olives
Two to three tablespoons olive oil
Tablespoon red wine vinegar,
Plenty Oregano
Black pepper
Mix the above and allow to stand in fridge to mingle flavours

Before serving add diced feta plus torn/chopped fresh mint leaves then squeeze quarter/half a lemon over it