It is Salad day at Divine Spice Box station today ! Today, i am making a fun, happy salad which you can make in advance and enjoy any time of the day. Presenting Roasted Potato Lettuce Salad.
I have been trying to eat healthy and clean my diet for a few weeks. One of the most effective way is to incorporate more greens in your diet. I would be putting lots of easy and fun recipes in the days to follow which can make your diet schedule more hearty, colorful and healthy. With the intention of consuming some green over this week, i bought lots of kale and a whole bunch of Romaine lettuce apart from other salad ingredients.
Greens for days
With kale, i made a huge batch of my Kale Chickpea Kebabs which i froze and now when i am in mood for eating a burger, i just pull out a couple of kebabs from the freezer, thaw them and use them as patties with my home made W.W Bread. With the lettuce, i used a few big leaves with my Vietnamese Savory Wraps which was absolutely fantastic but off course i still had a big bunch to deal with.
When it comes to Salad, i usually get my share of panic attacks and i am often clueless about its contents or construction. I just start to put in things which makes a pairing in my head and develop flavors as they come to me. This time, i planned to work with potatoes and Lettuce. I wanted a crunch and comfort with every bite and this combination seemed perfect!
Roasted Potato Lettuce Salad
Roasted Potato Lettuce Salad
Ingredients
- Romaine Lettuce- 1 bunch
- size potato- 2 medium , par boiled and cut into bite sized chunks
- grapes- 1/2 cup , slit vertically
- 7-8 Kalamata Olives, slit vertically
- sunflower seeds- 2 tablespoons
- pine nuts- 1 tablespoon
- dried dill leaves- 1 tablespoon
- oil- 1 tsp
- salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
Dressing
- Juice of half Lemon
- Flax seed oil – 1 tablespoon
- yogurt- 1 tablespoon
- sriracha/ hot sauce- 1 tsp
- honey- 1 tsp
Method
- Begin with roasting the potatoes. Take a pan and in it add in the oil. Heat it up. Add in the par boiled potatoes and roast on medium heat till potatoes start to roast on the edges.
- Add in the dried dill leaves, salt, pepper and mix well. Remove the potatoes and let them cool down.
- Mix all the ingredients for the salad together and spread the dressing on top. Toss around so that the dressing coats the entire salad. Serve cold with a side of your choice !
This salad is perfect in every sense.
The potatoes makes this dish filling and the crunch from the roast makes this salad extra delicious ! I did not use the usual mayo dressing but went light by using yogurt. The grapes add in a little surprise to the salad and sriracha gives a surprise kick for sure. Now, you would call this a surprisingly cool salad, won’t u 🙂
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I am a big salad lover and this salad has given me one more reason to love salads. Love the combination of ingredients!!
Oh that is great !