Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Another easy salad

My salads are basically pulled together from whats in the garden, pantry and fridge.  This one is an avocado, smoked chicken and peach salad. The peaches are canned in fruit juice and Ive used some of that juice in the dressing.

Ingredients are:

Salad:
Mixed lettuce leaves - I used peppery rocket or arugula and mustard leaves but any will do
A can of peaches in real fruit juice or 3 fresh peaches the pip taken out and quartered
Half a sliced red onion
Half an avocado sliced
Half a breast of smoked chicken sliced
Optional 100 gm pine nuts toasted

Dressing:
2 tablespoons of the fruit juice from the canned peaches. If you are using fresh peaches Id use some lemon juice and add half a teaspoon of caster sugar.
1/2 teaspoon of cracked pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons good quality olive oil


To pull together start by combining dressing ingredients in a jar and shake to combine. Combine all the salad ingredients in a bowl bar the avocado and pine nuts in a bowl and add most of the dressing and toss together. Finally add the avocado slices on top and sprinkle over the pine nuts. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle over the rest of the dressing.



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