Food Monday ~ Salads
Melon & Beetroot Salad
1 small Galia Melon
8ozs cooked fresh beetroot
5 tablespoons French dressing
2 tablespoons soured cream
Halve the melon, remove the seeds and using a melon scoop, scoop out the flesh into rounds, put to one side. Neaten the inside of one half of the melon. Cut the beetroot into rounds with the melon scoop. Mix together the French dressing and cream, and toss the beetroot shapes in the dressing. Just before serving, spoon the beetroot and the melon rounds into the trimmed melon shell, and garnish with the watercress.
Fennel & Cucumber Salad
1 small cucumber cut into matchsticks
4 large bulbs Fennel
Dressing
6 tablespoons French Dressing
1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
1 teaspoon prepared Mustard
A dash of Anise (optional)
Cook the fennel in a pan of boiling salted water for 5 minutes only, drain and refresh under cold running water and drain thoroughly. Cut the fennel bulbs in half lengthways. Mix together the French dressing, cumin seed, mustard and a few drops of anise if used and pour this dressing over fennel while still hot. When the fennel has cooled, toss into a serving bow with the cucumber strips and mix thoroughly. Garnish with watercress sprigs
Brown Rice Salad
100g Brown Rice
1 Tomato
1 stick celery
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon raisins
1 tablespoon peanuts
2 spring onions
2 tablespoons French dressing
Boil brown rice until cooked, drain, rinse and cool. Chop tomato, celery and onions and toss together and then stir in Rice. Add French dressing and serve.
Deborah said,
August 11, 2008 at 8:42 am
Yummy - especially the first one and so colourful!
When you say french dressing do you mean the American-style red one or vinaigrette?
Grannymar said,
August 11, 2008 at 10:01 am
Hi Debs
When I think french dressing it is usally a vinaigrette.
Thriftcriminal said,
August 11, 2008 at 3:57 pm
There is, in the view of my tastebuds, nothing good that can be done with beetroot. I’ve tried, extensively. Never found anything recipie that I liked. Remotely.
Other salds look yum though.
Magpie 11 said,
August 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Salads are so simple. We should use them more…melon nad beetroot…two of my favourite flavours topped off with my favourite leaf! (It’s reputation as an aphrodisiac is unfounded BTW)
steph said,
August 11, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Thanks! GM
Brown rice salad is on the menu for tonight.
All I need now is some inspiration for what to put with it
Grannymar said,
August 11, 2008 at 5:27 pm
@Thrifty - I should have put the beetroot at the bottom of the pile. That way you might not have noticed it.
@Magpie - Are you telling me you tried the watercress?
@Steph - Do you mean apart from booze?
steph said,
August 11, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Shhh! Grannymar
Tonight, it’s a bottle that fell off the back of a lorry… honestly!
Hand on my heart - it’s true!
It’s not as good as your Toyboy story though
Magpie11 said,
August 11, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Put it like this…. I eat it at every chance but there’s no change!
Grannymar said,
August 12, 2008 at 9:56 am
Magpie