For a quick weeknight meal the whole family will love, try this warm salad. Cook the merguez sausages, tomatoes and onions together in the air fryer basket and then combine with kale, golden raisins and pita chips. Instead of a dressing, just mix plain yogurt with oil and lemon zest. It’s colourful and easy to make!
Рубрика: Appetizers
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Warm Baby Potato Salad with Radishes and Tuna
In this warm salad recipe, you’ll love the contrast between the tender new potatoes, the creamy mustard and lemon dressing, and the crunchy radishes and pumpkin seeds. Add a can of tuna for a lunch or dinner that you can easily put together with ingredients you have on hand.
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Grilled Flap Steak with Crunchy Green Salad and Creamy Feta Dressing
Grilled meat and salad are the classic pair to enjoy at the end of a sunny day. In this salad, opt for a topping made from various seeds and nutritional yeast for a touch of umami. Grab some romaine lettuce and drizzle it with a creamy dressing made from sour cream and whipped feta cheese. Serve with a simple garlic-mustard steak grilled to perfection for a satisfying meal.
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Vegan Caesar-Style Dressing
Soft tofu, miso and nutritional yeast are a goldmine when it comes to preparing a vegan dressing. They check all the boxes when it comes to creaminess, strong flavour and a cheese-like taste, all essentials to a classic Caesar. Here’s a recipe perfect to elevate a salad or raw veggies.
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Lysanne O’Bomsawin’s Oven Bannock
«In Indigenous communities, this bread is an essential part of our diet. It’s very comforting. We can enjoy it with jam for breakfast, or with soup come dinnertime. It’s made from a prepared flour that already contains salt and baking powder; just add butter to form the dough. It’s an extremely simple and approachable bread that doesn’t even require kneading.»— Chef, Lysanne O’Bomsawin
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Lamb and Yogurt Dip with Spicy Tomato Butter
Like any Middle Eastern mezze, you can share this dip as an appetizer or enjoy it as a meal in a small group. It’s made with a thick yogurt to which crisp and caramelized ground lamb is added. Then drizzle on some warm butter flavoured with cumin, tomato and harissa. Garnish with green olives and mint, and then get your pita bread ready to dig in.
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Chili-Pickled Shrimp
With their tangy dressing, taste bursting with spice and high levels of fun, these shrimp will win hearts. Poach them, and then marinate them in a mix of vinegar, sugar and salt, as well as mini bell peppers and jalapeños for added bite. They’re ready just as quickly as the first round of cocktails.
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Confit Cherry Tomato and Ricotta Toasts
Capture the best of summer with this perfect recipe that can be enjoyed any time of year. Prepare a topping made from local greenhouse cherry tomatoes, thyme and garlic, concentrating the flavours by confiting them in oil. It’s a maximum of flavour but with minimal prep work.
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Strawberry-Rhubarb Burratina
At our Café RICARDO restaurants, when the warm weather arrives, we immediately start cooking with strawberries and rhubarb. This fruity pair is perfect in this salad, where the sweetness of one balances the acidity of the other. Served with burratina and drizzled with a chamomile dressing, this share-worthy starter is perfect for marking the beginning of summer.
