Composed Salad
Preparation and cooking time: 10 minutes (plus eggs)
This is a 'composed' salad, rather than a 'tossed' salad. The ingredients are arranged (artfully) on a bed of lettuce, and the dressing is drizzled over the top. As in most salads, it is very flexible, ingredients can be added or subtracted to suit taste and appetite. It makes a lovely first course or light lunch.
Ingredients:
- lettuce, enough for 2 small salads, 100gr, 3.5oz
- 2oz (60gr) ham, 60gr, 2.1oz
- 2 eggs, hard boiled, 130gr, 4.6oz
- 6 cherry tomatoes, 45gr, 1.6oz
- 1/3 red pepper, 55gr, 1.9oz
- 1/2 avocado, 100gr, 3.5oz
- 1oz feta cheese, 30gr, 1oz
- Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
- 2 tsp Dijon-style mustard, 10gr, .35oz
- 2 tsp honey, 14gr, .5oz
- 1 tbs tarragon white wine vinegar, 15gr, .52oz
- 4 tbs good olive oil, 54gr, 1.9oz
- 1 tsp snipped fresh tarragon
- 1 tsp snipped fresh chives
Instructions:
- Cook eggs (see techniques for hints).
- Slice ham into strips.
- Clean pepper and slice 1/3 of it into thin strips.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
- Wash and dry lettuce, leaving leaves whole if possible.
- Cut the avocado in half and remove pit. Wrap half in cling film and place, cut side down, on a plate and refrigerate.
- When eggs are done, cool, peel and slice or quarter.
- Make Vinaigrette: In a small bowl whisk mustard, honey and vinegar.
- Add olive oil and whisk until incorporated - this will get very thick.
- Add tarragon, chives and stir well to combine. This will keep for up to a week in the fridge.
- To assemble: Lay lettuce leaves flat on 2 large plates.
- Arrange ham, pepper, tomatoes, eggs and avocado artfully on lettuce.
- Crumble and sprinkle feta over the top.
- Drizzle with 3 tbs of dressing and serve, remaining dressing on the side.
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Nutrition Information |
Nutrition Information Complete Salad with Dressing Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 835 / 417 Total Carbohydrates: 26 / 13 Dietary Fiber: 10 / 5 Total Fat: 67 / 33.5 Saturated Fat: 16 / 8 Cholesterol: 611 / 305.5 Protein: 35 / 17.5 Calcium: 261 / 130.5 Sodium: 1375 / 688 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements in this color are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
