Killer Salad Recipes

Sweet chili prawn kebab salad is a simple salad to make, even more so if you add a little cheat, like I did, and use a ready prepared sweet chili sauce to marinade the prawns. Don’t use a whole jar for the marinade though, you will want to save some to use as a [...]

This simple and delicious Thai marinade is excellent for beef, especially a sirloin steak. Of course you’ll want to serve this with a salad, I recommend a simple salad of shredded lettuce, cucumber and tomato.

I’ve had a tin of chickpeas in my cupboard for a while. Today I decided to use them to make Falafel for lunch. Falafel is a middle eastern food, very tasty and easy to make. The purists among you may frown on tinned chickpeas and opt to soak dried chickpeas overnight, but [...]

I’m not one to pass up a bargain or special offer, so when my local supermarket had a ’special’ on seafood I couldn’t resist. I bought something I had never tried before, Squid rings. So the challenge was to make a salad including the squid rings. I did some research on cooking [...]

I don’t know about you, but I like crispy bacon, especially on a salad. But there is never enough when you use the sprinkle crispy bacon over a salad method, so I decided to increase the bacon content with this salad and make it a focal point, I mean: you can never have too [...]

Ingredients:

600 grams of whale meat in strimmels
1 red onion
1 red paprika
1 Valerianella (corn salad)
a little lollo and crispie salad
A small amount of bean sprout
Salt
Pepper
Taco spice mix
6 tortilla wraps
1 dl thick soured cream
A little chilli sauce

What you do:

This salad takes a little longer to prepare than say a proper bloke’s salad, but it is well worth the extra effort.
Coconut prawn salad, with fruit and a poppy seed dressing is one of my all time favourite salads, the prawns are deep fried in a batter made with beer and coated in flaked coconut. [...]

Gotta stick with the egg theme. Nothing like adding a quail egg to a salad - especially around Easter. This is another hot and cold salad that’s perfect for Easter lunch or dinner. The following recipe should serve 4.

Lots of posh chefs like to build their salads around a couple of slabs of goose liver or even duck liver. Then again: that stuff is really expensive and on top of that it’s most often grown in a very animal-unfriendly fashion. Why not use something just as smooth and firm and ever so tasty [...]

This easy recipe for a Mackerel Salad with Mustard dressing is not for those who have shy taste buds, the Mustard dressing is sharp on the palate but adds a nice balance to the fresh Mackerel. This salad is refreshing and full of flavour.