Super easy antipasto salad platter
A family style sharing salad with everything from salad greens to eggs, cold meats and pesto
Ingredients
- 2 mixed bell peppers sliced and roasted in oven for 20 minutes with olive oil and salt and pepper, cool. Or use peppers from a jar
- 4 medium free range eggs hard boiled and halved
- 1 slice bread in 1cm cubes tossed with olive oil and harissa or garlic salt and baked in oven for 5 minutes
- 6 slices honey roast ham or other cold meats
- salad greens (kale rubbed with olive oil to soften) all leaves torn
- 10 baby tomatoes
- 1/2 cucumber sliced
- 1 stick celery sliced into sticks
- 4 spring onions sliced
- 1 large carrot roughly grated
- 100 g giant couscous cooked as per packet instructions or other carb like pasta or rice etc
Creamed Herb Pesto
- 2 tbsp flaked almonds (or pine nuts, walnuts)
- 4 tbsp chopped mixed herbs (bsil, parsley, lovage, coriander)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp Greek yogurt
- 1 tbsp parmesan cheese grated
- salt nd pepper to taste
Salad dressing
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1/4 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/2 tsp honey
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Creamed pesto
- toast the nuts in a dry pan for about 1 minute till just golden and aromatic, immediately tip out of pan to stop cooking
- whizz all pesto ingredients in small food processor
Assembling the antipasto salad platter
- Have the salad dressing in a small jar on the side
- Plate up all the ingredients on large platter but don't mix them together as you would in a normal salad, keep everything in seperate piles
- Serve this family style so everyone helps themselves to what they want and puts it on their own plate and adds the salad dressing to leaves if they wish
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