Spring salad with melon, mozzarella and cherry tomatoes

ingredients:


- half a melon
- 1 mozzarella or packaging of small spheres
- pack of cherry tomatoes
- sunflower seeds (roasted)
- tablespoon honey
- balsamic vinegar
- olive oil

(also tastes great with rucola)


Carve spheres from melon but when you do not have the special spoon you can also cut the melon into cubes.
Add diced mozzarella  (or spheres).
Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.
Mix everything.
Pour the sauce.
Sprinkle roasted sunflower seeds.

Broccoli salad

ingredients:

- two fresh broccoli (about 1 kg ) or they can be frozen
- 150 grams of smoked ham 
- 200g of red grapes 
- 1 red onion 
- sunflower seeds
- small cup of yogurt
- tablespoon mayonnaise
- garlic ( usually give a clove or two , depending on size)
- salt and pepper


Divide broccoli into floretsBoil in salted water to slightly hard.
In the meantime, slice the onion, cut grapes in half. 
Roast sunflower in a dry frying pan until golden brown .
Slice ham into cubes and fry in a pan (do not add any oil!).
In a separate vessel (bowl), prepare the sauce - cup of yogurt mix with mayonnaise and crushed garlic.

When the broccoli are cooked put them on a sieve and cool them. 
Then place them into a bowl and add onions, grapes, ham. 
Pour the sauce and sprinkle with roasted sunflower seeds .
Mix and serve

Couscous tabbouleh

ingredients:

- 1 cup couscous
- 2 cups of freshly boiled water
- olive oil
- 1 1/2 cup finely chopped cucumber
- a few cherry tomatoes
- 15 g of finely chopped mint
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
- salt, pepper, chili flakes
- lemon juice


Pour the couscous into a bowl, cover with boiling water and cover eg. a plate, until the grits absorbed all the liquid.
Cool down.
Peel the cucumber and cut into small cubes.
Chop tomatoes and herbs

To the cold couscous add chopped vegetables and herbs.
Pour the lemon juice, olive oil.
Mix.
Season to taste with salt, pepper and possibly add more lemon juice.
I added chili flakes, so that the whole can become slightly spicy.

Cool it down for approximately 2 hours in a refrigerator.

Express salad with tomato

 

ingredients:

- pack of cherry tomatoes
- lemon pepper
- olive oil
- balsamic vinegar

Wash tomatoes and cut in half.
Sprinkle with pepper, drizzle with olive oil and vinegar.
You can sprinkle the top of the fresh basil.

Express salad with dried plums

Lunch.

Delicious, isn't it?!

ingredients:

- salad or mix of various salads

- dried plums

- french mustard

- olive oil

- thyme, rosemary

- mayonnaise / yogurt

- honey

- chicken or other kind of meat (if you want and like)

Wash salad and let it drain. 
Wash herbs, dry them with paper towel and cut into small pieces.
In a pot warm up a little bit of olive oil and mustard, after a while add mayonnaise and herbs. 
Put it aside. 

Arrange salad on a plate sprinkled with plums. 
Add meat - cooked chicken (if you want you can add any kind of meat cooked or grilled) and pour warm dressing over the top.

Grilled asparagus salad

Grilled asparagus salad

ingredients: 

- 500 g asparagus 
- chili peppers
- olive oil 
- salt, pepper 
- juice of lemon or lime 
- soy sauce (optional instead of salt) 
- spring onions 

Peel the asparagus. 
During this time, heat a frying pan and a little olive oil. 
Grill asparagus until tender. 
You can, in the meantime, add water or broth. 

Prepare the sauce: cut chili and spring onions  into small pieces. 
Mix the olive oil, soy sauce and season to taste.

Salad "Polonaise"

This recipe was in the "drafts" for 6 months.
I do not know why, but I prepared it just now, and I regret that I did it so late!
The combination of flavors - there may not be revealing.
Not everyone likes the pineapple and apple combined in salads.
Here everything fits gently.
In addition you prepare it in 15-20 miutes.

ingredients:

- 1 jar of pickled mushrooms
- 1 can of pineapple
- 1 can of corn
- 1 red apple with peel
- 1 leek (white part)
- 1 fresh cucumber
- Mayonnaise / yogurt
- Fresh parsley (I did not have parsley and added dill)
- Salt, pepper

All vegetables cut into small cubes.
Add mayonnaise / yogurt, finely chopped parsley.
Personally, I recommend to add yogurt, salad is then very light!
Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Place the for a few hours in the refrigerator before use.

Salad with rice noodles

Salad with rice noodles

ingredients:

- pack of rice noodles
- a cucumber
- shrimps (about 800g)
- yogurt
- a little bit of mayonnaise
- salt, pepper


In a saucepan boil salted water.
Hot, but not boiling water, toss pasta and wait about 5 minutes.
Drain and cut.
Shrimp and cucumber wash and cut into smaller pieces.
Mix in a bowl of noodles.
Prepare the sauce.
Mix yogurt with mayonnaise and spices.
Mix all ingredients.

Bon appetit!

Kaki with orange and blue cheese

Kaki with orange and blue cheese

ingredients:

- 2 kaki fruits

- 1 orange

- roasted almonds / pumpkin seeds

- Oil / linseed oil

- crema balsamico

- cheese

Cut kaki and orange into thin slices. 
Roast almonds in a frying pan without fat.

Arrange slices on a platter kaki, orange slices. 
Add crumbled cheese. 

Sprinkle with almonds.

Drizzle a little with oil and balsamic vinegar.

Bon apetit!