FANTASTIC FRUGAL SALAD

It's amazing what you can do with four ingredients!

Presentation transforms ordinary ingredients.  This knock-out salad will have the entire family salivating.  And no one will guess this gorgeous dish costs all of a pound! Serve with a herby yoghurt-mayo on the side.  

The ingredients are simple.

• lettuce leaves
• cucumber 
• sliced tomatoes
• grated carrot

The cucumber was sliced on the slant (see left corner below). One end of the cucumber slice is slightly pointed and that end faces outwards.  The bargain tomatoes were sprayed with olive oil and lightly salted; the smaller slices were not used. The carrots were grated by hand.  The lettuce used was Red Gems but English Lettuce or shredded Iceberg or Romaine would also create the frilly outer ring.  

Method:

1. Place a ring of lettuce leaves, top upwards, near the outer edge of the plate.  If serving many people, the greens can cover the entire plate.
2. Place a ring of cucumber slices just inside the outer lettuce ring. Space them evenly; you may need to cut more slices.  
3. Inside the cucumber ring but overlapping it, lay out a ring of tomato slices.
4. Heap grated carrot in the centre.

Variations: 

•  Add a ring of thinly sliced mushrooms, rounded top upwards, pointed slightly to the side.  
• Scatter completed salad with thinly sliced red onion rings.

And another easy, appetising way of presenting salad:

Chop or slice each ingredient to a thickness of your choice. Serve each ingredient in separate bowls or, nicely arranged, on separate plates. 

  

Tip:
If you liked this you will also like Perfectly Pretty Mixed Salads


Copyright: These salads have been designed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may only be reproduced in home kitchens.  Not for commercial use.