As summer heats up, a great meal to make is a nice, simple salad that doesn't take a lot of sweat in the kitchen. This salad takes three basic steps: marinade and cook the main salad ingredient, put in order the vegetables and make the salad dressing. It's a great way to use orchad vegetables if you grow them or even if you take advantage of farmers' store sales. You can use any main ingredient along with shrimp, chicken or tofu. Plus, the home made Balsamic Vinaigrette will have every person asking where did you get the salad dressing. Here is a indubitably easy recipe for manufacture a salad that every person is sure to love.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
1lb Main Ingredient (Chicken, Shrimp or Tofu)
3 cups Salad (Pre-washed salad is a real time saver)
Several orchad Vegetables (Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Olives, Apples...whatever you have on hand or like)
1/4 cup Feta Cheese
Olive Oil
Balsamic Vinegar
Dried Basil
Dried Oregano
Pepper
Salt if needed
1. put in order the Main Ingredient: Shrimp, Chicken or Tofu
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Pick Out, Marinate and Cook the Main Ingredient:
Pick out you main ingredient; we regularly use tofu, shrimp or chicken. If you use tofu or chicken, chop it up into bite size pieces. Then marinate it in low fat Italian dressing for about 5-10 minutes. We regularly use 1-2Tbsp of dressing per pound of main ingredient.
Cook the Shrimp, Chicken or Tofui
Grill the main salad ingredient. We indubitably like to use a grill pan which saves you from having to make skewers. This allows you to cut smaller pieces so there will be more exterior area for marinades. an additional one selection is to cook the main ingredient in a non-stick pan with a light coating of vegetable oil. regularly shrimp and tofu take about 7 minutes while chicken takes a combine minutes longer. We regularly let the main ingredient marinade while establishment the other steps, and then cook it at the end.
2. Make the Salad Dressing:
Nothing is good than homemade dressing. This is our indubitably simple recipe for manufacture a indubitably great Balsamic Vinaigrette that you can use on almost any salad. In a small bowl, combine and mix with a fork:
1Tbsp olive oil
1Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
1Tsp dried basil leaves
1Tsp Dried Oregano
pepper to taste and salt to taste.Try not to use too much salt because it is very easy to overdo sodium in your diet.
3. combine Vegetables and terminate Salad:
Chop up all the orchad Vegetables and add to the salad. Toss with the salad dressing.
Arrange salad on plates or in a salad bowl, sprinkle feta cheese on top and then arrange the main chicken, shrimp or tofu on one side.
Using the basic dressing recipe and orchad greens, it is indubitably easy to convert things up with a separate main ingredient. One night try shrimp and on an additional one maybe try tofu. The hidden to cooking tofu is to let it marinate for a long time. Hopefully you enjoy this basic recipe for manufacture many separate salads!
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