Enjoy!
Some things you just don’t want to muck around with too much. When you have wonderful, fresh, local, seasonal produce there isn’t a lot you need to do.
This week in my veggie box I got organic salad leaves and vine ripened tomatoes, I knew I wanted to make a salad for dinner. A bit of summer sunshine on another dreich May day. This recipe didn’t really come from anyone place in particular but mainly from just wanting to keep things simple and show off the produce (get me channelling the Great British Menu!).
Asparagus Salad
By Coffee Muffins
Total time: 30 minutes
Yield: 2 servings
- 8 asparagus spears, snap off the woody ends, but leave whole.
- 1 glug of olive oil, to cook the asparagus in.
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, also to cook the asparagus in.
- 10 vine-ripened cherry tomatoes, quartered.
- 200 grams of assorted salad leaves, washed.
- 1/2 a cucumber, sliced into long strips.
- 2 eggs, hard-boiled.
- 3 tablespoons of vinaigrette, use your favourite or mix up 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 tbsp of white wine vinegar, 1 tsp of sesame oil and a squeeze of lemon juice.
In the meantime prepare your salad. Add the washed salad leaves, tomatoes and cucumber into a bowl add the vinaigrette and toss the salad so evenly coated.
To serve place a mound of salad on each plate, top with slices of hard-boiled eggs and asparagus spears.
This salad tasted heavenly and even better because it is so good for you! If only all dinners could be this simple and tasty.
I saw this, it made me laugh (and seems vaguely relevant to a salad post) – a thank you note to spring.
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Love the veggie box! Good work creating the salad, all though I’m sure it was pure pleasure putting it together.
Dreich! Just learned that word the other day and here it is again, yay, love that.
The perfect meal!
Beautiful salad. I love asparagus. I like this.
@Patty, I did have so much fun making this salad, I spent my whole drive home from work thinking about what I was going to put together – and it didn’t disappoint!
@Sasa, dreich is such a lovely word
It unfortunately fits so perfectly with the weather we have been having here 
@Maria, I certainly thought so
@Mary, I was never a huge asparagus fan before (I think I bought it once last year) but I have been missing out! Definitely need more asparagus recipes.
Asparagus is what’s best with spring! I think your salad looks super simple and delicious – like it always should be!
I think asparagus should not be fiddled with too much either – this is a lovely salad! I would certainly enjoy this.
Btw Lauren – just wanted to let you know I have something you might want to to take a look at over at my blog. It’s not another award, just a thank you
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Lauren your salad looks and sounds so good! I love asparagus but usually just have it steamed, because I don’t have any other recipes for it. This is going in my favorites to try
Hey Congrats your #2 on Foodbuzz top 9!!
Looks great! Keeping salad colorful and simple. Asparagus is a huge favorite around here.
So healthy, fresh and crisp. Yummy
What a colorful, delicious salad. Asparagus is still affordable right now, so we eat a lot of it. I look forward to trying this recipe.
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