Showing posts with label Salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salad. Show all posts
St. John Salad
Ensalada de San Juan - St. John Salad
A salad of the Andes region of Venezuela. This recipe is almost forgotten, yet it deserves prepared, 'cause is a fresh and tastefully salad.
INGREDIENTS
1 small lettuce
1 or 2 Grapefruit (seeded and diced)
1 or 2 oranges(seeded and diced)
Goat Cheese
1 or 2 Green Mango (diced)
1 cup white corn boiled or a can of sweet corn
Corn oil
vinegar
salt
PREPARATION
Cut the lettuce into small pieces and serve with fruits, corn, and diced cheese. Dress with oil, vinegar and salt. Serve.
Chicken Salad
Ensalada de Gallina - Chicken Salad
Typicall Venezuelan salad, prepared especially for Christmas, Although people eats throughout the year. Really the name of this salad is "Hen Salad", but in this time nobody use hen.
INGREDIENTS:
2 chicken breasts
1/2 kg carrots
1/2 kg of potatoes
1/4 kg peas
1 green apple
1 small can of sweetcorn
350gr. mayonnaise (a jar)
1 onion
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 teaspoon mustard
1 tablespoon sugar
2 lemons
PREPARATION:
Wash and skin the chicken breasts, boil a pot with a liter of water, and place them breasts simmer to boil with a tbs. of salt, cover it, at least one hour. When cool pull apart and slice into small pieces.
Wash peas, potatoes, carrots, bring to medium heat in salted water for 30 minutes. Let resting, drain and cut into small squares.
Peel and chop the apple into small cubes, place in water with lemon. Chop the onion into small squares (brunoise).
Do a dressing with mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, salt, sugar and onion.
mix ina bowl the drain apples,vegetables, peas, sweet corn and chicken, then add the dressing with enveloping movement, trying not to break the vegetables.
Place in refrigerator for at least four hours (preferably make the salad the night before).
Served it cold on a lettuce bed.
enjoy!!!
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