During summer and early autumn, there’s a lot of salad greens growing in the garden. Using them in “ordinary” salads eventually gets boring however, this warm salad is an easy delicious improvement.
Ingredients (for 2)
- 10 (or more) cherry tomatoes
- Lettuce
- cucumber
- 200g sausages (we use gluten free)
- 1 x avocado
- 1tbsp wine vinegar (red or white)
- 1/2 tbsb brown sugar
- 1 small red onion
- 1/2 tsp wholegrain mustard
- bread roll to serve
- optionally other salad bits (pepper, celery, radishes, etc.)
Method
- Cut the sausages into bite sized pieces;
- Spray some olive oil (or other cooking oil) into a frying pan and toss in the chopped onion & sausage pieces, frying briefly until browned and the onion is soft;
- Add the mustard, cherry tomatoes and sugar and keep frying until the tomatoes start to split and everything is coated in mustard;
- In a salad bowl, make a salad with the lettuce leaves, cucumber & other salad bits;
- Peel, stone & slice the avocado
- Tip the hot sausage mix onto the salad;
- Deglaze the pan with the vinegar and a little water & pour it over the salad (the lettuce will wilt a little but that’s what you want);
- Mix the salad, sausages, etc. in the salad bowl and serve
- Put the avocado on top of the salad (you can mix it in but we find it gets squashed)
There you are, a tasty slightly different but simple salad.