Smoked Salmon Salad

01/06/2009

I was feeling the need for something healthy today, thought a salad would be a good idea. But just a bit of green leaves doesn’t make a salad in my book, and more importantly, you’re hungry again an hour later and tuck into some crisps.  Salads have to have a bit tasty chunks in them, preferably some animal protein.

This is what I bought:

• Pack of leafy salad, (field salad, generic green leafy stuff and the occasional crispy generic leafy stuff) I don’t think it really matters, I guess some baby spinach leaves would have been lovely too!
• One vine of cherry tomatoes (from the Turkish grocery – I find grocery stores owned and run by immigrant communities generally have fruit and veg that is a)  ripe , b) cheaper, than big chain supermarkets.
• 150 gr. (one bag) of sogging wet Mozzarella,
• black olives (from vacuum sealed pack, they are usually drier and loads tastier than their cousins that where drowned in brine),
• 200gr. smoked salmon,
• 3 red capia peppers (long sweet Turkish peppers)
• bunch of fresh parsley.
• 2 tbsp. olive oil.

Quarter the tomatoes. Drain, quarter and slice the Mozzarella, squish the olives (to squeeze the stones out) and chop roughly, finely chop the capias, wash and rinse the salad, chop or tear into edible sizes, drizzle over some olive oil, and stir around.  Pop it in the fridge while preparing the fish.

I briefly shallow fried the salmon pieces at high temperature, it gives the meat a crispy crust. Cut carefully into bite-sized chunks. Be careful, the meat very flaky and will come apart. Use this to your advantage and cut along the segment lines to get more presentable pieces. Put it in the fridge to cool down.

Wash the parsely, and pluck a good two handful of leaves. Chop over several times to get small flakes, add to the salad and add the fish pieces once they’re cold.

In the mean time, go tidy your room. Or blog, whichever you prefer.

Result:

Quite a tasty mixture, I thought the salmon, rich black olives and mozarella made the taste-backbone of the salad. Easily digestible and with a good mix of light and leafy/healthy stuff, and filling chunks that make sure you don’t leave the table hungry.

Prepare it again?

Probability 80%

Tagged as: salad, salmon