SALADS/DESSERTS

Foods are enjoyed by many the world over. Many have enjoyed various sumptuous meals that they would like to enjoy again by preparing it themselves or it has been a long while since they prepared some so as a result might need some guide as to how to go about it.


Following are various Salads/Dessert recipes that people enjoy all the time. Here we look at what goes into the preparation of the vegetable salad, fruit salad, meat salad etc. that we enjoy every day. Please read through and prepare yours at home, below are the various recipes for various Salads/Desserts:

VEGETABLE SALAD

Ingredients

4 Potatoes.

4 Carrots.

1 Tin French beans.

1 Tin green peas.

Seasonings
2 Medium sized Onions, chopped.

1 Medium sized Cucumber.

1/2 small bottle Salad Cream.

Preparation

Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes, and also scrape carrots and cut into cubes.

Top tail French beans, cut into cubes then peel cucumber and cut that too into cubes.

Cook Potatoes, carrots and French beans separately in boiling salted water and then strain and allow to cool.

Add all the ingredients and then mix in with the salad cream or mayonnaise.



FISH SALAD

Ingredients

100g cooked fish (Free from skin and bones).
1 Hard boiled egg.
50g Cucumber.
5g Lettuce (Chopped).
Salt and Pepper to taste.
Parsley.
Vinaigrette.

Preparation

Flake the fish and cut the egg as well as the cucumber 1/2 cm dice.

Shred the lettuce and mix ingredients together and add parsley.

Correct the seasoning and mix in the vinaigrette with the ingredients.

Dress neatly using some lettuce and serve.



MEAT SALAD

Ingredients

200g cooked lean meat.
1 tablespoonful vinaigrette.
25g Gherkins.
50g Tomatoes.
25g Chopped Parsley.
5g Chopped Onion.
10g Green beans.

Preparations

Cut the meat and Gherkin as well as the green beans into 1/2 cm dice.

Skin tomatoes, remove seeds and cut that too into 1/2 cm dice and then mix with the other cut ingredients.

Correct the seasoning and then dress neatly in a ravier. Decorate with lettuce, tomatoes and fans of gherkins.

Serve.



FRUIT SALAD (I)

Ingredients

2 Ripe bananas.
2 Oranges (ripe).
1/4 Pineapple.
50g Sugar.
2 Ripe mangoes.
1/4 Pawpaw.
125ml water.
1/2 Lemon juice.

Preparation

Boil the sugar with the 125ml of water to make up a syrup and then put it in a bowl. Allow it to cool and add the lemon juice . 

Peel and cut your oranges into segments and then wash and peel as well as quarter your mangoes, pawpaw and pineapple. Mix all of them together.

Put the content away in a refrigerator and allow to chill. Just before serving, peel and slice the banana and then mix in.
(Portions - 8).



FRUIT SALAD (II)

Ingredients

1/2 Watermelon.
2 Ripe Oranges.
1/2 Pineapple.
A little Ginger.
2 Apples.
1 Pawpaw.
Syrup.

Preparation

Peel Orange and then cut into segments and also cut the other fruits into cubes.

Put all together and add your syrup (i.e water, ginger and sugar boiled cloves, pepper corn).

Mix them in and then serve.



BANANA FLAN

Ingredients

100g Sugar Pastry.
2 Bananas.
2 tablespoons apricot glaze.
1/4 Pastry cream and thick custard.

Preparation

Cook flan blind and allow to cool, make pastry cream or custard and pour while hot into the flan case.

Allow to set and then peel and slice the banana neatly and arrange over-lapping layers on the pastry cream, coat with glaze and then serve.

(Portions - 4).



FRUIT COCKTAIL

Ingredients

Assorted fruits (Apples, pears, pineapples, grapes, cherries etc).
Syrup.

Preparation

Get all the assorted fruits ready and then wash, peel and cut into neat segments or dice.

Add the cut fruits to your syrup (i.e 100g of sugar and juice from a half lemon plus 1/4 litre of water and boiled).

Neatly pour them out into cocktail glasses and then allow to chill.

Serve.