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Favourites Healthy Mediterranean Salads

Feta, pomegranate and broccoli salad

Another plant based lunch to try, healthy and a good mix of food groups. This is a good base for other variations of salads

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Chicken Global Healthy Main course Salads Starters

Chicken and mango salad

Chicken and mango are a perfect combination for a fresh, healthy and summery salad

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Asian recipes Chicken Fish Main course Salads

Thai chicken & prawn noodle salad

Thai chicken & prawn noodle salad is super healthy and so easy to make. Thai food is about balancing four main flavours, salt, spice, citrus and sweet, it just takes a bit of trial and error

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Indian Salads Side dishes Starters

Chickpea, mango and coconut salad

This is a great little Indian starter, chickpeas, mango and coconut all work well together to create a fresh favoured dish

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Asian recipes Chicken Main course Salads Starters

Vietnamese Chicken Salad

This is a really easy Asian salad recipe that involves no cooking, apart from poaching a chicken breast and that’s hardly taxing! It’s great to have if you feel you’ve been overdoing rich and heavy foods as it is light, fresh and healthy.

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Healthy Main course Mediterranean Salads Vegetarian

Broccoli, feta and chickpea salad

Super healthy fresh salad, feta adds a great salty flavour to this salad and broccoli cooked al dente is the busness! Serves 2 Cooking time 15 mins Ingredients large head of broccoli (about 350g), cut into small florets 1 x 400g tin of chickpeas, drained and rinsed handful of sundried tomatoes, sliced handful of black […]

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British Fish Main course Salads Starters

Smoked mackerel salad

Method: This is a really easy starter or light lunch, ideal to take to work. Packed full of goodness with lots of veggies and omega 3-rich oily mackerel. Win win! The amounts are just a rough guide – add more or less of what you want. Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender. Drain […]

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Fish Global Main course Salads Starters

Prawn and pomegranate salad

Method: This is a very simple recipe, place the prawns in a small food bag and add the ginger, garlic, lime juice and chilli.  Leave to marinate for 30mins at least.  Prepare the salad by pan frying the peppers in a pan with some olive oil, when ready remove from the pan and mix in […]

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Italian Main course Pasta Salads Vegetarian

Roasted Cherry Tomato and Rocket Salad

Preheat the oven to 190C.  Arrange the halved tomatoes cut side up in a roasting tin, drizzle 2 tablspoons of the oil over them and sprinkle with the garlic and salt and pepper. Roast in the oven for 20 mins turning once. Cook the pasta until al dente. Put remaining oil in a large bowl […]

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Chicken Italian Main course Salads

Pan fried balsamic chicken with salad

First butterfly the chicken which basically means cutting it through the middle so it is a bit thinner, this lets it cook faster and more evenly, season with salt and pepper and set aside. Prepare the salad, in this instance we just chopped some tomatoes and added them to salad leaves and spring onion in […]

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British Salads Starters Vegetarian

Winter salad

Ingredients: 2 Bulbs raw fennel, quartered 1 Orange, segmented 1 Apple, sliced Rocket or other bitter salad leaves Black olives Extra virgin olive oil (Sicilian is particularly good) Method: Place fennel in cold water for 10-15 minutes. Rinse, drain and slice thinly.  Mix with the orange and apple. Add salad leaves and olives. Drizzle with […]

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Fish Global Salads Starters

Thai style prawn and avocado salad

Ingredients: 2 Small ripe avocados, cut into small chunks 100g Cooked prawns (see Cook’s Tip) Quarter of a cucumber, peeled, seeds removed and sliced 2 Tomatoes, chopped 2 Spring onions, very finely sliced About 10 mint leaves, finely sliced 2 tbsp Chopped fresh coriander Dressing: 1 Red chilli, seeds removed and finely chopped 1 sml […]

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British Fish Salads Starters

Simple tuna salad

Ingredients: 1 Tin tuna – in olive oil 2 Spring onions, chopped 1/4 Cucumber, deseeded and diced Some salad leaves, rocket etc 8 Baby plum tomatoes or something similar 6 Capers chopped Juice of half a lemon Olive oil Method: This is about as simple as it gets. All you need to do is drain […]

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French Game Salads Starters

Duck salad with hazelnut dressing

Ingredients: 50g Hazelnuts, roasted 25g Sultanas 200g Celeriac 1 Large Cox’s apple Salt and pepper For the dressing: 3 tbsp Groundnut oil 3 tbsp Hazelnut oil 1 tbsp White wine vinegar 2 tsp Sherry vinegar A squeeze of lemon juice Method: Make the dressing: Put all ingredients in a small jar, cover and shake well […]

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Asian recipes Fish Salads Starters

Papaya salad

Ingredients: 150g-200g Green (unripe) papaya, peeled and sliced 100g Cucumber, peeled, deseeded and sliced 3 Cloves of garlic 2-3 Small green chillies 2-3 Raw green beans, cut into 2cm pieces 2 tbsp Fish sauce 2 tbsp Lime juice 1 tsp Palm sugar 1 Large tomato, chopped 30g Peanuts, roasted 150g Cooked and peeled prawns, roughly […]