Did you know that May is National Salad Month? What better place than the Garden State to enjoy a great freshly made salad.
Here in New Jersey, we have some of the best places to get a great salad. But one of the many things that s great about a salad, along with the nutritional value, is that you can personalize the ingredients to make it your own. That s something that you cannot get on a restaurant menu.
While there are many types of salads to choose from, such as Caesar or cobb, I have never seen a Jersey salad. So I asked my social media:
Three brilliant new salad recipes to banish limp lettuce forever
Limp lettuce with sliced tomato and cucumber is thankfully a thing of the past
2 May 2021 • 6:00am
Try one of these vibrant, life-giving salads
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American food writer Emily Nunn was spending the pandemic shut up in her house in Virginia. Things were gloomy. She was short of work and on her own a lot. But every day brought a surge of joy as she surveyed the fruit and vegetables she’d picked up in her neighbourhood: the peaches, tomatoes, muscadine grapes, blackberries, golden raspberries and both crisp and soft leaves.
Warm potato salad with pickled fennel and chorizo recipe
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This recipe makes me think of a fantastic, simple holiday dish my uncle makes of spicy sausages with peppers and onions. Itâs reinvented here with fennel (roasted and pickled), a tonne of parsley, and a bright, lemony dressing. Give it a try and declare warm salad season open.
Prep time: 20 minutes |
3 chunky chorizo cooking sausages
2 lemons, juiced
1 large red pepper from a jar of chargrilled peppers, sliced into ribbons
A couple of tablespoons of ricotta
METHOD
Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6.
Put the new potatoes in a roasting pan. Snip the fronds off the fennel and set aside. Then cut one and a half fennel bulbs into wedges and add them to the pan, reserving the final half. Drizzle a tablespoon of oil and scatter over the fennel seeds and plenty of salt. Roast in the oven for about 50 minutes, or until soft and golden.
I m declaring warm salad season officially open
It s the perfect time to dive into those warm salad recipes that are more potato than leaf, more main meal than side dish
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I’ve been daydreaming recently about those thick, sharp vinaigrettes you get in French bistros; the sort that slap you round the mouth. In a meal that should probably be all about the crispy fries or the perfectly cooked steak, it’s the handful of vinegary leaves that often makes it for me.
Someone was making a warm goat’s cheese salad on Instagram the other day (one of those where a huge hunk of cheese is rolled in sesame seeds, fried and plonked, oozing, on a bed of leaves). I had some sort of Pavlovian response and found myself walking to the shop to buy the ingredients for it.
Watch: You Just Need 5 Minutes To Prepare This Summer-Special Salad
Watch: You Just Need 5 Minutes To Prepare This Summer-Special Salad
Muskmelon is packed with a bevy of minerals and antioxidants that help us beat the heat. We bring this healthy and tasty muskmelon salad for you to try.
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This salad recipe will help us cool down in no time
Do you too feel like eating nothing during the summers? If yes, then this article is just for you. Summer brings along dehydration, irritation and unwanted bloating, further leading to loss of appetite. Hence, we tweak our diet during the season and make it as light as possible. Juices and light and soothing salads make their way into our everyday diet. Besides, we also load up on seasonal fruits and vegetables to nourish us from within. One such fruit we swear by during the summers is musk melon. Juicy, fleshy and aromatic, muskmelon has all the reasons to be popular. It is super healthy too.