Category: Salads

Goats’ Cheese, Bacon and Egg Salad with Walnuts

Spruce up your salad with this goat’s cheese, bacon and egg salad with walnuts recipe – an easy and nutritious option for lunch or dinner. Ingredients: 8 streaky rashers 4 eggs 100g mixed leaves 75g mange-tout, thinly sliced lengthways 4 radishes, cut into matchsticks 100g creamy goats’ cheese 50g walnuts, lighted toasted in a dry… Continue reading Goats’ Cheese, Bacon and Egg Salad with Walnuts

Cobb Salad with Stir-fried Pork and Basil and Lemon Dressing

Cobb Salad is a classic American dish which usually includes chicken and blue cheese. We have swopped the pork for the chicken and mozzarella for the blue cheese – it’s another combination that works! Ingredients: 400g pork stir-fry strips/4 pork chops, trimmed and sliced 1 tablesp. rapeseed or olive oil 4 eggs 2 avocados, peeled,… Continue reading Cobb Salad with Stir-fried Pork and Basil and Lemon Dressing

Healthy Potato and Beetroot Salad

This is a delicious and fresh tasting salad. Ingredients: 150g New season potatoes (or 2cm cubed Roosters or baby potatoes) 3 cooked beetroots, cut into quarters 2 spring onions, chopped ½ bag watercress, large stalks removed 1 packet cress For the dressing 1tbsp low fat crème fraiche 2tsp mayonnaise 1tsp grain mustard Juice of ½… Continue reading Healthy Potato and Beetroot Salad

Chicken and Bacon Salad with Roasted Broccoli

Roasted broccoli is quick and easy to prepare. Once you cook it like this, you’ll never go back to any other method. Ingredients: 3 chicken breasts, cut into pieces about the size of your thumb or 300-400g diced chicken 180g bacon lardons 200g tender stem broccoli, trimmed 150g mushrooms, cleaned and thinly sliced 2 tablesp.… Continue reading Chicken and Bacon Salad with Roasted Broccoli

Barbecued Honey and Mustard Glazed Lamb Chops with Quinoa salad

Lovely fresh and summery flavours. Ingredients: 8 sideloin lamb chops or lamb steaks Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 red and 2 yellow peppers, deseeded and cut into quarters 2 red onions, peeled and cut into wedges A little olive oil Marinade 1 tablesp. Dijon-style mustard 2 tablesp. wholegrain mustard 2 tablesp. honey 1… Continue reading Barbecued Honey and Mustard Glazed Lamb Chops with Quinoa salad

Grilled Haddock with a Salad of Baby Gem, Egg and Crispy Bacon

Any leftover dressing can be stored in the fridge for up to a week. Ingredients: 700g haddock, skinned and boned A little salt and black pepper 6 bacon rashers 100g green beans 4 baby gem lettuces 2 eggs, hardboiled, peeled and cut into quarters Dressing 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 dessertsp. wholegrain mustard 1 teasp.… Continue reading Grilled Haddock with a Salad of Baby Gem, Egg and Crispy Bacon

Bacon and Blue Cheese Salad

I’ve used this delicious dressing just for lettuce leaves, but it would also be great poured over halved baby new potatoes, preferably Jersey Royals. Otherwise try adding a handful of croutons, a thinly sliced pear or a handful of roughly chopped walnuts. Ingredients: 225g (8oz) piece of rindless streaky bacon, cut into lardons 2 shallots,… Continue reading Bacon and Blue Cheese Salad