Avocado & Pine Nut Salad
A healthy breastfeeding recipe for mums. It’s good to keep a salad like this in the fridge to dip into as a healthy snack any time you feel hungry.
Prep Time:
5 minutes
Cook Time:
4 minutes
Serves:
4
Great For:
Grown Up Entertaining
Not Suitable for Freezing
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Ingredients
- 50 g pine nuts
- 100 g french beans, halved
- 2 plum tomatoes, halved & cut into slices
- 200 g mixed salad leaves
- 1 medium ripe avocado
- 2 hard boiled eggs, each cut into 6 wedges
- 100 g tinned sweetcorn
Method
- Lightly toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan until lightly golden.
- Blanch the beans in boiling lightly salted water for 3-4 minutes or until just tender.
- Make the dressing by whisking together the oil, vinegar, caster sugar and soy sauce and season to taste.
- Stir in the blanched beans and the tomatoes and sweetcorn.
- Arrange the salad leaves in a dish, cut the avocado in half, remove the stone and skin, cut into thin slices and arrange on top of the salad leaves with the eggs.
- Spoon over the tomatoes, beans and dressing, and finish by scattering over the pine nuts.
