May 09, 2021

SUMMER SALAD AND CHEESE NAANS

With today's recipe we are going to propose a new way of picnicking. A nice simple salad with cheese naans, that you can dip in a refreshing sauce with pickled red onion.

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Ingredients for about 4 people:

For the cheese naans:

500g flour
One packet of baking powder
A glass of lukewarm water
One Greek yogurt
A pinch of sugar
Olive oil
Laughing Cow cheese
Garlic

Sauce for the naans :

Mint leaves
A bunch of coriander
A clove of garlic
A small green pepper
Juice of one lime
A dash of lemon
A good dose of olive oil
Salt
Pepper

For the pickled Onion:

One large red onion
A bowl of wine vinegar
4 good pinches of salt
4 good pinches of pepper

For the Greek salad:

A nice bunch of grape tomatoes
A nice cucumber
One ripe avocado
One or two red onions
Mint
Coriander
Half a block of feta cheese
One lemon
Salt
Olive oil
Chilli pepper

The strawberry salad for dessert:

A nice tray of strawberries
Lemon juice
Brown sugar
Mint leaves

Let's get on with the preparation!

Preparation of the naans:

In a bowl, put the flour, mix it with a large pinch of sugar.
Pour the baking powder into the warm water and stir until the mixture is smooth.Add the Greek yogurt to the flour. Mix.
Pour the water with the yeast and mix until you have a homogeneous dough.
Finish the preparation with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix well.
Place a cloth over the bowl.
Put the bowl in a turned off oven with a bowl of boiling water next to it and let it rise for 1 1/2 hours.
Once the dough has risen, make small balls and roll them out into patties of whatever size you like.
Spread every other patty with laughing cow cheese, then cover them with the patties without cheese.
At the same time, heat some butter with a clove or two of garlic in a pan over high heat.
Place your patties in the pan and let them cook until they are golden brown.
Once golden, flip your patties and repeat.

Make the naan sauce:

In a blender, place the herbs.
Drizzle with a generous amount of olive oil.
Add the juice of the lime.
A drizzle of lemon.
The clove of garlic
The chilli, salt and pepper.
Blend everything until you get the consistency you want.

We present our naan on a cake platter dryness and the sauce in a large mug flowers 1

Preparation of the pickled onions:

Cut your onions in half, then cut them into thin strips.
Place the slices in the wine vinegar, separating them.
Sprinkle with salt and sugar.
Mix well and let stand for an hour.

Preparation of the salad:

Cut your grape tomatoes in 4, reserve them in a salad bowl with a good drizzle of olive oil and salt, let them marinate a little in their juice.
Cut your cucumber in 4 lengthwise, then in 1 cm thick pieces. Add them to the salad bowl.
Cut your avocado in 2, remove the skin and cut it into thin slices.
Place them on top of what's already in the bowl. Drizzle with lemon, olive oil and a little salt.
Repeat the onion step and sprinkle the slices over the salad.
Cut the feta cheese block into equal-sized cubes and place them on top.
Coarsely chop a good handful of cilantro and a few mint leaves. Sprinkle them over your salad.
Finish seasoning with salt, pepper and chilli.

We present the salad in one of our Fruit bowls

Preparation of the strawberry salad:

Cut the strawberries into quarters and place in a soup plate or salad bowl.
Sprinkle with lemon juice.
Sprinkle with brown sugar.
Roll the mint leaves into a ball and chop into thin strips to sprinkle over the strawberries.

Presentation of your picnic

The whole point of a picnic is not to get bored. Take the salad with you in a large round serving dish (it's no more cumbersome than bringing a cake). Present your naans on a cake plate, the sauce that goes with them in a teacup or bowl. Lay out your tablecloth in a park, your garden or wherever you like, arrange your various dishes on it, and voilà, all you have to do is enjoy a pleasant afternoon in the sun.