Summer salads

Potato salad

Ingredients:

Potato – 4 large no.s
Coriander – 1/2 cup chopped fine
Oregano – 1 tsp
Chives – 1 tsp
Peanuts – ½ cup roasted and salted cut into half
Lemon juice – 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Mint leaves – 10 no.s
Green chilli – 1 small chopped fine( or half a capsicum chopped for children)


Method:

Boil potatoes with 2 tsp salt and peel and cut into cubes
Mix all other ingredients.
Serves 6

Lettuce and ham salad

Ingredients:

Lettuce – 1 small
Ham – 4 slices cut into strips
Red onions soaked in vinegar and salt – ½ cup
Leek – 1 no. snip in small rounds with kitchen scissors
Pumpkin seeds – ¼ cup roasted and salted
Sweet corn – 1 cup steamed
Salt to taste
Olive oil – 2 tsp

Method:

Slice red onions lengthwise and soak for half an hour or overnight in 1 tbsp vinegar and ½ tsp salt
De vein the lettuce and snip leaves into squares or strips
Add all the ingredients and toss the salad.
Serve with mayonnaise or thousand island dressing

Carrot and cucumber salad

Ingredients:

Carrots – 3 grated
Cucumber – 1 med sized grated
Capsicum – yellow or red cut into thin strips
Garlic – 1 crushed
Ginger – ½ inch piece cut into very thin strips
Sprouted Green gram – boiled with salt
Lime juice – 2 tsp
Pepper – ½ tsp
Basil – 1 tsp
Olive oil – 2 tsp
Salt to taste

Method:

Mix all the ingredients well.
1 tbsp mayonnaise can be used instead of lime juice.
Serves 6

Crunchy-munchy salad

Ingredients:

Cabbage(purple or green) – 1 small deveined and cut into pieces
Carrots – 1 cup grated
Capsicum(green) – 1 cup cut into strips
Sausages(grilled) – 5 no.s cut into cubes
Peanuts(roasted and salted) – ½ cup
Kabuli channa(Boiled) – 1 cup
Salt to taste
Vinegar – 1 tbsp
Olive oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

Mix all ingredients together and serve.
Serves 4