Saturday, February 13, 2010

Eggplant grilled salad



You need
  • 1 big eggplant (cut it into 1 inch rounds).
  • 1 beefsteak tomatoes cut it in cubes.
  • 1/2 of green olives.

For the dressing
  • 4 cloves of garlic minced.
  • 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
  • 1 teaspoon of balsamic vinegar.
  • 1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin.
Combine everything together and you are done with the dressing.

What to do next
  •  Brush the eggplants with some olive oil them grilled for 2 minutes each side (if you have an indoor grilled don't use it to hot) after this wait for 5 minutes to cut it into big pieces.
  • Toss the eggplants, tomatoes and olives adding the dressing.
This serve 4 of your friends as a side dish is great, if you are in a diet this is great as a meal.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Cucumber sweet salad



You need:
  • 2 cucumbers
  • 1 red or green bell pepper
  • 1 small red onion
  • 1/2 of raisins
  • 1/2 of slice rape black olives
  • 3 cups of fresh spinach

For the dressing:
  • 4 spoons of olive oil
  • 2 spoons of apple vinegar
  • 3 spoons of spice muster 
  • 2 spoons of honey
  • 1 teaspoon of salt 
  • 1 teaspoon of black pepper

How to do it:

Start with the dressing:
  • Mixing all the ingredients until you get a creamy consistence.
  • Piled the cucumber and cut it in half cleaning all the seeds in the middle and cutting into small cubes
  • Cut the red bell pepper  and red onion in fine juliennes.
  • Place the cucumber, onions, pepper, black olives and raising into a bowl and add the dressing saving 2 spoons.
  • Add the spinach (previously washed and dried)  in a separate bowl adding 2 spoons of the dressing and mixed with your clean hands, this is better for the presentation and also if you mix everything together you end with all the vegetables in the bottom of the bowl plus is could turn really soggy.
 And this is it, serving a fair amount of spinach on the plate and topped with the vegetable mix, this is a light dinner, you can grilled some chicken or fish as well.

Y a comer.