Recipes by Barbara Northwood

Summer Salad with Citrus Dressing

Nov 17 11:43am
Serves
4
Ingredients
  • 8 eggs
  • 1 cup ice-cubes
  • 400g sweet potato, peeled, cut into thin rounds
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber, peeled, sliced
  • 1 red onion, halved, thinly sliced
  • 100g baby spinach leaves
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 avocado, sliced
  • 100g shaved ham
  • 8 large cos lettuce leaves
  • CITRUS DRESSING
  • 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
  • 1 teaspoon finely grated orange rind
  • 1/2 cup lemon juice
  • 1/3 cup orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon caster sugar
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste
Method
1 Place eggs in a single layer in a medium saucepan. Cover with 4cm of cold water. Bring to boil. Remove from heat and cover, stand for 12 minutes. Fill a medium bowl with 1 litre (4-cups) of cold water. Add ice-cubes. Transfer eggs to iced water using a slotted spoon. Stand for 5 minutes before peeling. Cut eggs in half.

2 Cook sweet potato on a heated, oiled grill pan (or grill or barbecue) for about 5 minutes or until browned all over and tender.

3 To make citrus dressing, combine all ingredients in a small bowl, mix well.

4 Combine sweet potato, cucumber, onion and salt and pepper in a large bowl. Drizzle with half the citrus dressing and toss well.

5 Spoon sweet potato mixture into lettuce leaves and top with avocado, eggs and ham.

6 Serve salad drizzled with remaining dressing.

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