Tuna Salad

An idea from my friend Ewelina.  She is master of the salads.  

INGREDIENTS (for two people):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A tuna tin.
- Olives.
- A half an onion.
- 100 grs. of pickled cucumbers.

- 100 grs. of sweet corn.

- A tomatoe.
- Pistachio.

For the dressing:
- A natural or greek yogurt.
- A little basil.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce or the salad prepare as the base into the salad bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoe in pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the cucumbers and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the onion and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Spread the corn over the salad bowl.
- Spread the tin of tuna over the salad bowl.
- Spread the olives over the salad bowl.
- Now, mix in another reccipient the yogurt and the basil.
- Dress the salad with the previous mix.

- Spread up the pistachios over the salad bowl.
- Serve it!

Salad with boiled egg and asparagus

An idea that raised from the need to take advantadge of the ingredients I had in my fridge.  So, i prepared this simple salad with a good result.

INGREDIENTS (for two persons):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A piece of leek.
- 1 tomatoe.
- 100 grs. of asparagus.
- Pistachio.

For the dressing:
- Mayonnaise.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce or the salad prepare as the base into the salad bowl.
- Boil the egg.
- Pick up the leek in pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the boiled egg and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoe into pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the asparagus into pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Spread up the pistachios over the salad bowl.
- Now, mix in another reccipient the mayonnaise and the white pepper. 
- Dress the salad with the mix between mayonnaise and pepper.
- Serve it!

 

Chicken marinade into raspberries vinegar with a guacamole dressing

INGREDIENTS (2 persons):
- 3-4 chicken steaks (depending on the weight).
- 2 tomatoes.
- A little handful of pistachios.
- A little handful of little pieces of toasted bread.
- Lettuce or a salads bag.

For the chicken and tomatoes marinade:
- Raspberries balsamic vinegar.

For the guacamole:
- 1 avocado.
- Lime juice (it could use also lemon juice).
- 1 tomatoe.
- A olive oil spoonful.
- A garlic.
- 1 jalapeño chile or 1 chilli pepper (optional).
- 1/2 cumin little spoonful.
- 1 or 2 sticks or fresh cilantro.
- Pepper and salt.

PREPARATION:
- Clean up the chicken steaks and cut them into little pieces, Limpiar y trocear los filetes de pollo en pequeñas porciones, putting them into a bowl.  Cover it with raspberries baslamic vinegar and let it during almost two hours before the preparation.
- Clean up the tomatoes and cut them into little squares, putting them into a bowl with the pistachios.  Cover it with raspberries baslamic vinegar and let it during almost two hours before the preparation.
- Into a bowl, clean and serve the salads bag (or the lettuce) as a base.
- Dry the tomatoes squares separate them from the pistachios, and share them out over the salad bowl.
- Dry the chicken pieces as dry as we can, and put them into a frying pan with a little olive oil.  Keep into the frying pan until they were toasted and the liquid were evaporated.  Share them out over the salad bowl.
- Share the pistachios out over the salad bowl.
- Share the marinade resting vinegar out over the salad bowl.
- Share the toasted bread pieces out over the salad bowl.
- Prepare the guacamole(1) and share it over the salad bowl.
- Serve it.

Preparing the guacamole(1):
- Break the avocado into half, take the seed out and, with a spoon, extract the avocado meet, putting them into a bowl.
- Mix into the recipient the lime (or limon) juice.
- Put the little olive oil spoonful.
- Put the tomatoe cutted into little pieces.
- Put the garlic cutted into little pieces, the jalapeño (or the chilli pepper) well cutted, the comino, the cilantro cutted, the pepper and the salt.
- With a fork, smash the avocado meet and make a paste with the mix.
- Probe it and adapt it to our tastes.

Strawberrys with melted brie cheese salad

A very simple and light salad, perfect to accomplish with, in example, croquettes, a steak fillet, ...I hope you like this...

INGREDIENTS:
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A tomatoe.
- Roughly ten strawberries.  It's a question of taste.
- 10-15 raisins.
- Brie Cheese.

For the dressing:
- Apple vinegar.
- Olive oil.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Cut the tomatoe and spread over the lettuce.
- Spread the raisins over the recipient.
- Pick the strawberries up into four pieces, and spread over the recipient.
- For the dressing, we spread a little oil over the recipient, and then, a little apple vinegar.
- In the other hand, cut the brie-cheese into pieces and put into the frying pan until the cheese pieces look toasted.
- Spread the toasted pieces of cheese over the recipient, and remove it over the salad.
- Serve it.

NOTES:
- We can use cherries instead of the strawberries.

Dry-tomatoes salad

Well, talking about the dry-tomatoes, here i put a simple dish to use them.  I hope you like it.

INGREDIENTS (2 persons):
- 4 or 5 dry-tomatoes previously rehydrated.
- A couple of fresh tomatoes.
- A jar of olives without seed.
- 100 grs. of (i recommend coloured pasta and bows).
- Grated cheese.
- Red vinegar.
- Olive oil.
- A clove of garlic.

PREPARATION:
- Once the dry-tomatoes are rehydrated (i explained this in my last post), macerate them into olive oil with an entire clove of garlic, during almost three hours (i used to let the entire night before).
- Boil the pasta.  Serve the pasta into a bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoe, the olives and put them into the bowl where previouly we served the pasta.
- Take off the dry tomatoes, drain them from the oil.  Put them into an independient bowl with a little vinegar and beat them til we have a paste of them.
- Share out the dry-tomate paste over the main recipient.
- Finally, we add a little vinegar and the grated cheese to taste.

Dry tomatoes: a "delicatessen"

Today i'm going to use dry-tomatoes to cook, and i want to talk about the dry-tomatoes properties because are not the same as for natural tomatoes.

• In caloric value, dry-tomatoes contain more calories than naturals.  Dry-tomatoes contain 213 calories/100 grs.
• Dry-tomatoes are full of vitamin A.  Contain 833 mcgs/100 grs.
• Provide a powerful element against prostate cancer, the lycopene.  Concretely, 5,51 mgs/100 grs.
• They're not so good for persons with hypertension.  The dry-tomatoes contain sodium in a proportion 266 mgs/100 grs.
• The dry-tomatoes also provides potasium, an extra strength for the muscles.  Contain 1560mg/100 grs.
• Magnesium is alson in dry-tomatoes in a proportion 81mg/100 grs.

Talking about it's preparation, dry-tomatoes can be obtained from fresh roma tomatoes, cutting in half and drying it in the sun plenty of salt.  By this way, they are dehydrated and dry.  It's a recommendation to keep the dry-tomatoes into dry containers.  If you don't want to prepare them,  you also can buy dry-tomatoes.  In any case, when we want to use them, we have to rehydrate them.  To realize that, i used to left during a couple of hours into lukewarm water.