Hello everyone!
Very often we are getting into a trap of cooking from the same ingredients or making the same type of dishes – that becomes so boring that sometimes we think: “I am so tired of eating the same food, what should I do”. We start looking for some creative recipes but there is a problem: How do you know whether it is tasty or you will like it?. The answer is that we are looking for a trusted resource or the one with a lot of feedback from people.
If you tried some of my recipes, you should already know that food I share with you is delicious and easy to make (and honestly, my boyfriend is very critical when he evaluates my food, so it is not just my opinion). Today I want to share with you very interesting salad that is great for lunch or dinner, it will take ca. 15 minutes to make it and requires just 6 ingredients.
For 2 portions you will need the following ingredients:
- Beet – 1 average
- Crispy Lettuce – 130 g
- Goat cheese (brie or similar type) – 70 g
- Pear – 250 g
- Walnuts –35 g
- Turkey or chicken breast – 130 g
In this recipe we will first prepare all components, and then assemble them before serving the salad.
Step 1. Marinade a turkey/chicken
Take a turkey or chicken breast (further mentioned as turkey), wash it and cut it into smaller pieces as pictured. Then add salt, black pepper, dry basil (1 tbsp) and dry rosemary (1 tsp) and add 2 tbsps of olive oil. Mix it all together and set aside to marinade while we prepare other ingredients.
Step 2. Prepare beet
Beforehand boil a beet in casserole for an hour or until it gets soft inside (depends on the size of your beet). Take this ready beet, cut it in half and peel the skin off. Then Slice the beet as it is shown on picture and put sliced beet aside.
Step 3. Grill the pear
Wash a pear and cut it in half. Slice the halves and clean from seeds. Warm up either pan for grilling or regular one to temperature 6 out of 9. Grill/fry the pear for 1-2 minutes on one side and the flip it over. Continue frying pear for another pear and take it off the pan on a plate. Put it aside.
Step 4. Gill turkey/chicken
Take a turkey/chicken that was marinaded at the first step, and grill or fry it on the same pan as we used for pear and at the same temperature. Grill it for 4 minutes on both sides, and then flip it over again and grill for 2 minutes more on each side. Take ready meat on a cutting board and chop it into smaller pieces like pictured. If you see that some of the pieces are undercooked, set them back on pan for a few more minutes. How it should look inside is shown on the picture below.
Step 5. Final preparations
Wash a lettuce salad and put it on the paper towel to dry. Then take a goat cheese or any other that are similar (like brie) and cut it into squares (like on the picture). And now all ingredients are ready, we can assemble a salad.
Step 6. Assembling a salad – one plate for one person
Put two big plates in front of you, and all ingredients around. We will assemble a salad layer by layer:
All components are ready to be assembled in a salad
Layer 1 is teared up lettuce salad.
Layer 2 – Put beets over the green salad
Layer 3 – Grilled pear
Layer 4 – Grilled meat
Layer 5 – Goat or other cheese
Add goat cheese
Layer 6 – Walnuts – but cut or smash them before adding to the salad
Layer 7 – Use either olive oil or a bit of balsamic glaze as a salad dressing and that’s all.
Enjoy your food
