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EASY HEALTHY RECIPES

QUICK AND EASY DINNER RECIPES: VEGETABLES

Yummiest Layered Salad Ever

Christmas Layered Salad (Salad Leaves, B

The Yummiest Layer Salad Ever is one of the most spectacular salads I've seen and tasted. Here it's illustrated as an individual salad but I usually make it in a gigantic crystal bowl and use it as a centre piece for a Christmas Luncheon.

 

Ingredients

½ iceberg lettuce

1 punnet grape tomatoes cut in halves

5 shallots

2 cups frozen peas

3 eggs

1 250 gram punnet mushrooms

125 grams grated tasty cheese

2 tablespoons chopped parsley

1/2 small bottle black olives diced

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Optional Topping

2 ripe tomatoes cut into wedges

5 rashers bacon

 

Dressing

1 cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoons sour cream

2 teaspoons French mustard

1 tablespoon lemon juice

​Method

1. Shred lettuce and place into bottom of glass bowl

2. Pour uncooked frozen peas over the top of lettuce

3. Pour in layer of diced black olives

4. Add layer of halved grape tomatoes

5.  Pour uncooked frozen peas over the top of lettuce

6. Chop most mushrooms into tiny pieces except for three which you slice and use to display through the glass bowl by placing them horizontally around the edge of it.

7. Mash eggs with a fork and add to finely sliced mushrooms

8. Spread mixture over the peas

9. Add grated cheese on the top

10. Combine mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard, shallots and lemon juice and pour over the top of salad

11. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight

 

12. Assemble just prior to serving

13. Sprinkle chopped parsley over the top of the salad

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Optional Topping

14. Cook diced bacon under griller on sheet of aluminium foil and sprinkle across the middle of the top of the salad

15. Place tomato wedges on top of the salad in the shape of the bowl

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HINT: Use a see through glass salad bowl for this salad to be best displayed.

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