STEPS Recipe Card - August

SMOKED CHICKED SALAD
with mango and caramel cashews

Chef: Marcin Markiewicz

Serves 4 as a starter or 2 as a main course

Message from nutritionist, Kellie Collins

The nuts, seeds and olive oil used in this Mediterranean style recipe provide heart healthy monounsaturated fats, which are also known as “good” fats, as they can help to raise levels of good (HDL) cholesterol and reduced levels of bad
(LDL) cholesterol.

Ingredients

For caramel nuts:

20 ml olive oil

100 g cashew nuts

1 tbsp caster sugar

Freshly ground black pepper to taste

For citrus and poppy seed salad dressing

45 ml olive oil

45 ml fresh orange juice

15 ml lemon juice

1 tsp honey

45g poppy seeds

Freshly ground black pepper to taste

Method:

Prepare caramel nuts as follows:

Cover the bottom of a non-stick pan with olive oil and heat.

Sprinkle nuts to cover base.

Stir-fry continuously until nuts are warmed through.

Sprinkle with castor sugar and stir-fry until the sugar has melted and begins to

caramelise. Turn nuts over onto a sheet of grease proof paper.

Grind over black pepper. Leave to cool and break into pieces.

Prepare citrus and poppy seed salad dressing as follows:

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.

Ingredients for salad

120g mixed salad leaves

2 sprigs of fresh dill

2 tomatoes, diced

Half a cucumber, diced

2 fresh mangoes

2 smoked chicken breast fillets, sliced

Method

Prepare salad as follows:

Tear salad leaves and arrange each serving on individual plates.

Peel the mangoes and cut with a sharp knife on either side of the stone and then into thin slices.

Arrange the chicken strips, mango slices, tomato and cucumber on the salad leaves and top with the dressing. Sprinkle with caramel nuts.

Garnish with dill sprigs.