Bistro Salad
Course: Lunch, DinnerCuisine: VegetarianDifficulty: Easy
Servings
4
servingsPrep time
10
minutesCooking time
5
minutesTotal time
15
minutesA simply tasty salad from the new Dinner Cracked recipe collection.
Ingredients
1 medium sized carrot
1 small parsnip
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
0.5 cup walnut pieces
5 5 slices streaky bacon
4 eggs
0.75 cup croutons*
2 (or) 3 handfuls salad greens e.g. rocket, baby spinach
3 spring onions, sliced
3 extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Cut the carrots and parsnips into 3-5cm sticks. Place the vegetables in a small baking dish, drizzle with oil, season with salt and pepper and bake for 30 minutes until golden and tender. Allow to cool a little before using.
- While the vegetables are cooking, lightly toast the walnuts (just until they are fragrant and starting to change colour) in small frying pan over a medium heat.
- Transfer the walnuts to a bowl and in the same pan cook the bacon until just crisp. When cool enough to handle, roughly chop.
- Heat a large pan of water until boiling and then reduce to a simmer.
- Toss the salad leaves, spring onions, carrot, parsnip, walnuts, bacon, and croutons in a large bowl and then divide between 4 individual bowls or plates.
- Mix together the oil and vinegar and season with salt and pepper. Drizzle each salad with a little dressing.
- Poach the eggs in the simmering water until the whites are opaque and then sit one on top of each salad. Serve immediately.
tips & Hints
- *Croutons are easily made by slicing day old bakery bread into chunks, drizzle with a little oil and bake until golden and crisp. You can also use store bought readymade croutons.
- *If you don’t have white wine vinegar then you can use any other vinegar, or you could use lemon juice.
- Serves 4 for just $12.90