Filling healthy dinner: salmon salad with horsradish dressing and garlic bread on the side
- 400 grams flaked steak of salmon (pre-cooked and smoked if available) or bite size grilled chicken breasts or thinly sliced grilled steak.
- 150 grams pre-chopped and washed salad greens mix (eg: lettus, red radicchio and shredded yellow carrots)
- 50 grams Arugula leaves
- 1 or 2 small cucumbers (you can slice it into long strips with a potato pealer and slice the remaining inside part as normal)
- 1/2 red sweet capsicum (cut into small cubes)
- 1/2 yellow sweet capsicum (cut into small cubes)
- 1/2 can precooked chickpeas ( 400 gram can)
- 2 tbsp prepared horseradish paste
- 4 tbsp EVOO
- 1/2 lemon (juiced) or a dash of vinegar if you don't have lemon juice
- 3/4 tbsp dried parsley or 2 tbsp fresh chopped
- 1/2 loaf french baguette - you can use brown as a healthy option
- 1 butter - or low fat alternative
- 1 clove garlic split in half
- If you can't find the pre-cooked and smoked salmon steak flakes (the package normally says salad smoked salmon flakes), you can cook a couple of salmon steaks to your liking.
- You can use my Salmon steak recipe.
- Just leave to cool before adding to the salad.
- This salad works as well with grilled chicken cut into bite size pieces or thinly sliced grilled steak or even cocktail shrimps or a mix of non-cooked mushrooms instead of the salmon.
- You can cook the protein any way you prefer, but I prefer grilling, roasting in the oven or pan frying.
- Follow the rest of the steps as normal but substitute the salmon with the protein of your choice.
- The amount of protein specified in this recepie is a personal prefrence, you can use less if you want.
- Cut the half of baguette all the way through like a sandwish then cut each side in two to get 4 slices (2 per person
- Spread butter on the slices from the previous step
- put them in the oven on 180C for 4 minutes or until crisp and golden yellow on the top (make sure you keep an eye on them as each oven is different).
- Rub the halved garlic clove on the bread as soon as it comes out of the oven .
- In the meantime, assemble all the ingredients for the salad - leave out half of the chikpeas and all the salmon
- Mix all the dressing ingredients.
- I didn't have lemons so added a dash of vinegar instead.
- Taste and adjust to taste.
- You may want to add salt and pepper if needed.
- Found this dressing on "tesco.com" as a part of an other recipe.
- Add the dressing a bit at a time on the salad then mix well and taste.
- If preparing beforehand, only do steps 6 and 7 (and 1 or 2 if choosing one of those options) then do the rest of the steps just before serving.
- Add the salmon flakes and the rest of the chikpeas on top
- Serve the salad with the garlic bread on the side
salmon, red radicchio, arugula, cucumbers, red sweet, yellow sweet, chickpeas, horseradish, evoo, lemon, parsley, option, butter, garlic
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/360482-filling-healthy-dinner-salmon-salad-with-horsradish-dressing-and-garlic-bread-on-the-side (may not work)