Italian Garden Salad
Italian salad is quick and easy to make and is very refreshing to serve before your main. Any veggies can go into the salad and a typical Italian salad will have olives in it. You can pretty much customise your own ingredients. Italian salad using a vinaigrette-based dressing to keep it light and appetising and it usually doesn't contain any meat.
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Colander
Ingredients
Vegetables
- 1/2 head Iceberg Lettuce Hand Shredded
- 1 each Red Onion Thinly Sliced
- 1/2 punnet Cherry Tomatoes halved
- 1/2 each Cucumber Julienned
- 2 tbsp Parmesan Cheese
Vinaigrette
- 4 tbsp Olive Oil
- 2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
- 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
- 1/4 tsp Mixed Herbs Dried
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
Instructions
- Make the vinaigrette by combining all the ingredients together and whisking thoroughly. Let it sit for about 10mins to rehydrate the dry herbs for more flavour.
- Prepare all the vegetables and place into mixing bowl.
- Dress the salad and toss, only when closer to serving time, else the vinegar might wilt the vegetables, drain excess liquid.
- Toss the salad mix with the vinaigrette before serving and garnish with parmesan cheese.
Notes
- Use extra virgin olive oil for more flavour
- It would nice to actually have red wine vinegar - but you can substitute with malt or apple cider vinegar
Nutrition
Calories: 240kcal
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Prep Time [preptime]
min
Cook Time [cooktime]
min
- Italian
- Appetizer, Sides
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