Wednesday 5 December 2018

Christmas Salad ...looks so colourful


With Christmas just around the corner, how about this idea! I'm sure family, friends, guests and all will delight in eating this colourful lunch or dinner starter. It's light and bright, and made with gorgeous smoked salmon, avocado and clementine's. 

Ingredients:
Serves 10
6 clementine's, peeled
3 avocados, halved and de-stoned
112.5g watercress, washed
120g smoked salmon, torn into pieces
juice of 1 lemon

1 tbsp. olive oil, for drizzling 

Method:
1. Slice each clementine horizontally into thirds. Use a spoon to scoop out the flesh from each avocado half and slice evenly.
2. Toss the clementine's and avocado with the watercress and scatter on a plate.
3. Top with the salmon. 
4. Drizzle with freshly squeezed lemon juice and olive oil, and sprinkle on freshly ground black pepper. 

Each serving provides:
3.6g carbohydrate 0.5g fibre 4.3g protein 10.1g fat 

From an original idea here 

Watercress with its deep green leaves, and crisp, paler stems, is related to mustard and is one of the strongest-tasting salad leaves available. It has a pungent, slightly bitter, peppery flavour and is highly nutritious, containing significant amounts of iron, calcium, vitamins A, C and E. It's usually sold in either bunches or bags, and is good combined in a salad with milder leaves, or made into soup.

Hope you may enjoy a plate of this colourful salad …


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All the best Jan

41 comments:

  1. Oh looks and sounds delicious!

    Happy Day to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  2. How I wish that hubby would eat fish...but he won't.
    Looks yummy though.

    Hugs ❄🎄❄

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  3. This sounds wonderful, so yummy! Valerie

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  4. I love salads and the citrus will be in season here soon! Enjoy your day!

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  5. Mjammie. That looks delicious. Love the orange in it :-)

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  6. wow, did the saliva explode with this post

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  7. it's a beautiful salad with very nice ingredients, this is something i would love!!

    the christmas picture is also pretty!!

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  8. Oh- That looks delicious and I know my hubby would love it. I can't eat salmon but everyone else in my family loves it. Beautiful presentation, too! xo Diana

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  9. It looks delicious, now that is one meal that we will be having over the festive period.

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  10. That looks so yummy. I've never thought of combining avacado with Clementines or any sort of orange.
    At Thanksgiving my nephew who lives in Alaska came and brought some salmon he had caught and pickled them for us. Delicious.

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  11. That does look colorful and it's not a flavor combination that I would have thought to put together.

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  12. Interesting salad mix Jan.

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  13. Another winner :)
    Thank you, Jan!

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  14. That's something a bit different and it looks delicious.

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  15. It does look good. My Christmas salad will be a fruit salad. Heavy on stone fruits, berries and mangoes.

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  16. Hello Jan!
    That looks delicious!
    A lovely idea for the festive period!
    Thank you for sharing!
    Enjoy your evening!
    Dimi...

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  17. Salads are always welcome on the table. They allow for versatility of color and flavor, are excellent for digestion and balanced food intake. Citrus fruit might be a good addition to it.

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  18. The Christmas salad looks so pretty! It is most definitely true that we eat with our eyes before our mouths...and the look of a food definitely dictates whether or not I want to give it a try! Have a great one Jan! Hugs!

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  19. Hi Jan oh love the look of this salad and i will give it a try,thankyou for sharing the recipoe.

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  20. I love salads and this one looks delicious.

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  21. It occurs to me I've never had clementines.

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  22. It has smoked salmon and avocado? Sign me up. In fact I want two helpings please!

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  23. Looks delicious! I love salads of all kinds. The creativity you can use to make them, the fresh ingredients and colour - wow!

    Thanks for posting. I'll give it whirl!

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  24. This salad is a treat for the eyes as well as the mouth. Lovely!

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  25. So pretty and I know it will taste fabulous.
    I love salad and this one is a keeper.
    Beautiful photo.

    cheers, parsnip and badger

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  26. That does look beautiful and delicious - my late mother used to make orange salad.

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  27. I have a frozen salmon, an avocado, lemons, and some clementines. Now I just need to put them together, because this sounds simply delicious, Jan.

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  28. In our grocery store I´ve never seen watercress, just the small one.
    But I´mm off to a bigger one and will keep my eyes open!

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  29. Me encanta está ensalada ¡ tengo que hacerla ! Gracias y besitos.

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  30. Look so colourful for a festive table.. I would have to replace the salmon with cheese and would then use bright coloured cheese.

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  31. Lovely and looks delicious!

    www.thepulpitandthepen.com

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  32. This salad is to die for... but actually it looks very healthy. :)
    Thank you and have a happy weekend! xx

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  33. I don't know if I have tried watercress before or not, I will have to look for that. I am not one to mix my fruit in my salad, I am funny about mixing some foods with others, I know crazy, my hubby laughs at me :)

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  34. that salad looks beautiful!! i love food photos.

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  35. I would love to have this right now!! Thanks Jan! Big Hugs!

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  36. Such a lovely salad. And I just love smoked salmon!

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