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Easy - Peasy salad

 

I made this salad today and I just had to share it with you all.
 
I call it the 'Easy - Peasy' salad. Without more ado - let's get to it.

So What Do We Need?
  • 2 tablespoon Yoghurt
  • 1/2 teaspoon Lime / Lemon juice (Optional)
If the yoghurt is tasting more tangy and sour then skip the lime/ lemon Juice.
  • 1 teaspoon Soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Olive oil
  • 1/2 - 1 teaspoon crushed Pepper - Adjust as per taste and preference.
  • 1/2 teaspoon smoked Paprika powder
  • 5 to 6 Lettuce leaves - Torn to bite size pieces.
  • 1 Tomato - Sliced or chopped to bite size pieces - whichever way you prefer.
  • 1 Cucumber - Sliced - You can peel away the skin if you want to.
  • 6 pitted Olives Black or Green - sliced
  • 3-4 Mint leaves - chopped
  • 1 sprig Coriander leaves - chopped
  • Cooked Chicken / Fish / Hard boiled Egg - cut into bite size pieces.
  • Salt if required

Let's Do This

  1. In a big bowl, whisk together yoghurt, olive oil, soy sauce, lime juice, pepper and paprika.
  2. Taste to check if salt needs to be added. If so, add enough salt and mix well.
  3. Toss in the lettuce, tomato, cucumber, olives, mint, coriander leaves.  Mix well.
  4. Now add the pieces of chicken / fish / egg.
  5. Serve it on a plate and just sprinkle some paprika powder over the top.
  6. And your done.
Hope you enjoy this quick and easily done Salad. It has everything you need and is very filling. Like always you can add in whichever veggie that you like and tweak the recipe to suit your taste. Do give it a try. And stay happy and healthy.


Note

Have this salad as soon as you are done making it. The longer you keep it in the bowl or in the fridge - the juices from the tomato and cucumber are going to get released. So you will have this wet watery mixture left at the bottom of the bowl which just makes everything very soggy.



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