It’s always nice to have something a little bit different from a standard salad and this wintery salad is just that. It’s packed with texture, flavour and colour and the …
Warm Puy Lentil and Beetroot Salad with Balsamic Leeks
INGREDIENTS 110g/ 4oz Puy Lentils, rinsed 300ml/ ½ pt Vegetable stock 150g/ 5oz Cooked beetroot, diced 50g/2oz Sun blush semi dried tomatoes, roughly chopped 25g/1oz Pitted black olives Sprinkling …
Winter Salads
The first bagged salad was a shredded iceberg sold by Marks & Spencer in 1986. Today we have a wider choice of leafy salad available to enjoy than ever before. …
Salad – a history with etymology (where did these words come from?)
Facts and folklore relating to salad leaves 1. HISTORY AND FACTS The lettuce we see today started out as a weed around the Mediterranean basin. In ancient Egypt, lettuce was …
Salad nutrients
1. IT’S IN THE COLOUR Salad leaves are nutrient rich. The green chlorophyll in the plants’ leaves absorbs sunlight. It uses the sun’s energy to make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide …
British beans
Hodmedods, based on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, focuses on produce from British farms especially less well-known foods, like the fava bean, which is still grown and exported but hasn’t really been …
Beetroot
A big, fat, red British root, beetroot has one of the highest sugar contents of any vegetable. Up to 10% of beetroot is sugar, but it is released slowly into …
Tenderstem, Beetroot & Toasted Seed Salad with Lemon Dressing
This colourful salad is the ultimate health-giving dish! The Tenderstem has more vitamin C than the same weight of fresh oranges, the beetroot helps to keep blood pressure down and …
A guide to salad leaves
1. ICEBERG Fantastic crunch and a sweet flavour. Juicy and versatile. Good with hot or cold food. Try it with burgers or fill the leaves with spicy chicken or veg …
Watercress, Quinoa, Feta and Broccoli Salad
Serves: 4 175g/6oz quinoa 1 medium head broccoli, broken into florets 2 tbsp hazelnut oil zest and juice 1 lemon salt and freshly ground black pepper 25g/1oz hazelnuts 1 (100g) …
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