Here are five recipes to prepare earth salads always different to enhance the flavors of the vegetable garden. They are suitable for a lunch to take to the office, such as light meal or for a buffet.
Ground salad with chickpeas and eggplant
Among the land salads, this one has a slight Middle Eastern flavor. To prepare it, just sauté in the frying pan eggplant diced with oil, chilli, cumin and turmeric until they are well cooked. Add to the last ones also chickpeas in the pan e season with lemon juice. Place now in a salad bowl a leafy vegetable mix as a base (lettuce, songino, radicchio …), add the boiled quinoa and the mix of aubergines and chickpeas. Season with more oil, salt and lemon juice, stir and serve.
Ground salads with mushrooms
Who knows why when a dish is "earthy" it contains 90% of the mushrooms and then one cannot miss one like this even in this roundup. The ideal would be to have delicious ones sautéed porcini mushrooms, but also the mushrooms in oil, the champignons or any type of mushroom you have will be fine. Prepare the salad with rocket salad, of the speck cut into strips and made crispy in the pan, of the walnuts and mushrooms. Season with salt, pepper, oil and parsley and bring to the table.
Salad with eggs and asparagus
Fresh and vernal, this salad collects the best that the earth offers after the winter hibernation. Songino, fresh raw peas, asparagus just blanched, a few slices of avocado (which is divinely with eggs) and a fried egg finally. The soft yolk will create a delicious creamy sauce that will season all this riot of vegetables. If you really want to overdo it, add some flakes of grain and do not forget to season this very green salad with salt, oil and White pepper.
Chicken and sweet potato salad
A fresh base lettuce, enriched with gods strips of chicken stir-fried with oil and paprika. To complete the sweet potatoes baked in cubes, seasoned with rosemary, salt, oil and other paprika and a fresh one dressing based on Greek yogurt, salt, oil and a touch of mustard. This chicken salad is definitely different from the usual.
Mexican salad (pseudo)
Ground salads can also be inspired by the gastronomic traditions of other countries and this is inspired by Mexico. The base is an abundant portion of fresh or crunchy ice berg. They give the Mexican touch the i pepperoni – yellow, red, and green – cut into strips and cooked in a pan with plenty of it chili and cumin seeds, an onion cut into strips, a pinch of salt and some good extra virgin olive oil. Cook briefly on the grill also strips of beef and then complete the salad, adding warm peppers and freshly cooked meat to the spinach. Dress with del lime juice and a little oil.