12 July 2006

Garden salad with herbs



1 head lettuce
1 carrot, thinnly sliced with a peeler
a few leaves mint
a few leaves sweet basil
a few leaves red basil
a few leaves lemon balm
a branch of parsley
salt, to taste
2-3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp vinegar
some Maggi Original Seasoning, to taste

Cut the lettuce into medium sized pieces and put in a large bowl. Peel the carrot and thinnly slice with a peeler.

Using kitchen scissors, cut the herbs and add to salad. Put the parsley into a cup and finely cut with scissors and add to salad.

Lightly salt the salad. Add olive oil, vinegar and some Maggi Seasoning, to taste. Gently mix.


Notes:
All herbs in this recipe are fresh, not dried. Any herbs which are unavailable, simply omit them.

If you don't want to serve the salad immediately, you can salt it, but only add the olive oil, vinegar and Maggi just before serving. Once you add those ingredients, it will lose a lot of its volume.
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