Summer Salads La Mia Preferita salad Recipe Beans about you salad

 Toss Up These Summer Salads!

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Is the summer heat ruining your appetite? Do you just feel like skipping lunch every other day? Well, may be it's time to switch over from your heavy curries and fried foods to a light meal that's easy on your tummy. Try these yummy summer salads that will make for a substantial meal without puffing you up. What's more, you can toss them up in no time at all!

Beans about you

Ingredients
100 grams green beans, blanched
100 grams bamboo shoots, cut into matchsticks, and boiled
100 grams rocket leaves

For the dressing
2 tbsp tahina paste
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp thai sweet chilly sauce
½ tbsp minced garlic- slightly roasted
Loads of coriander
1 tbsp finely crushed peanuts
½ tbsp tamarind paste
½ tbsp poppy seeds- roasted
Salt and pepper to season

Method
1) Mix all the ingredients for the dressing together in a clean bowl.
2) Add the bamboo shoots and green beans and make sure that it is well coated. Season with salt and pepper.
3) Now for presenting the plate - Scoop a big spoon of the bean and bamboo shoot salad in the centre of the plate and top it with rocket leaves, and drizzle it with any left over dressing. Enjoy!

La Mia Preferita

Ingredients
100 grams rocket leaves, trimmed and cleaned
100 grams beetroot, boiled and cubed
30 grams goat cheese- preferibily Chevre, if not any good strong goat cheese will do
Few kernels hazelnut or pine nuts- optional

For the dressing
½ cup yoghurt- hung
½ tsp garlic paste
Handful chopped parsley
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to season
Water if required

Method
1) Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees.
2) Warm up the goat cheese, we do not want it to melt, but to become soft from inside.
3) For the dressing add all the ingredients together, and add water if required, we want a consistency of flowing cream here.
4) Add the beetroot to the dressing till well coated.
5) In a plate Place the Salad leaves, top it with the beetroot and finally place the warm goat cheese on it.
6) If you want you can scatter a few kernels of pine nuts or hazelnuts around before serving.