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Healthy Burrata Salad with Seasonal Ingredients

Burrata Salad is a popular Italian salad. It is a popular Italian salad featuring creamy, fresh burrata cheese. The cheese is typically paired with cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, olive oil, and balsamic glaze. It is a simple yet elegant dish

BURRATA SALAD

Ingredients Serves 4

  • 4 Burrata cheese
  • Spinach and rocket
  • 300g cherry tomatoes
  • Half cucumber
  • 1 carrot
  • 4 spring onions
  • 100g of black olive
  • 75g of capers
  • Some basil
  • 100ml of good quality olive oil
  • 20ml Balsamic vinegar

Method

  1. Start by washing the spinach and rocket
  2. Cut the cherry tomatoes by half and place them in the container
  3. Wash carrot (do not peel) take top and bottom off and cut it small cubes
  4. Cut the cucumber half lengthwise then cut by 3 strips then cut small cubes add to tomatoes
  5. Cut the spring onions and mix with the tomatoes, cucumber and carrots
  6. Add capers
  7. Chop the black olives and add to the salad
  8. Quick chop the basil adds to the salad then add olive oil and mix well
  9. To plate place the spinach and rocket into a plate and drizzle with balsamic
  10. Scatter the salad around then add burrata cheese on top and season ENJOY!!!!
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Fresh Fig and Avocado Salad with a Manuka Honey Dressing

Even though the weather is getting cooler, there is always an appetite for a healthy colourful salad. Being it the main dish or a side salad, it can be enjoyed at anytime of the day!

Ingredients

  • a bunch of fresh mixed lettuce leaves, we used a mix of rocket and purple leaf lettuce
  • half an avocado, stoned and sliced
  • 1 fresh fig, peeled and quartered
  • 1 fresh buffalo mozzarella cheese, drained well and sliced
  • drizzle of manuka honey dressing (see below for recipe)
  • some pomegranate seeds

Equipment

  • Salad bowl
  • Small bowl for dressing
  • Colander
  • Spoon

Method

Simply set the base of the salad with your lettuce and spread the other ingredients all over, finishing with a drizzle of the manuka honey dressing and scattered pomegranate seeds. You can also add some sunflower seeds for more nutritional value.

Top Tip: The easiest way to clean a pomegranate is to half it and with the back of a spoon, tap its outer shell so seeds will fall easily.
Manuka Honey Dressing 
Mix all together the following ingredients:
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 3 teaspoons manuka honey
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 1⁄2 tsp lemon juice
  • 1⁄4 tsp dried mustard
  • salt and pepper