Best salad ever
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This has to be the best salad ever made by my hands. By eating salad, I’m trying to lose weight by also not adding any sugar and cutting back on bread, pasta and rice. I know scallops are a bit extravagant, but it is the weekend and 100 g cost me $3.40. It was the chilli bacon though which made my mouth feel like there was a party going on.
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Weight loss
I’m not exactly losing much weight but I am feeling better and my trousers certainly feel better. I can wear my favourite belt without using the special holes. At least I look thinner now than I did 15 years ago.
I have no idea if I can get back down to 77 kg but I hope before Christmas I can wear trousers one size smaller.
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Recipe
- 3 rashers Streaky bacon
- 100 g scallops
- Chilli flakes
- 2 Bird's eye chillies
- Savoy cabbage
- Cos lettuce
- 1 Green bean
- Dried Italian herbs
- Spring onions
- 100 g Blue cheese crumbled
- Donkey sauce
- Salted butter
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Cut three streaky bacon rashers into thin cross-rasher slices
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Spread the bacon pieces onto a baking sheet and add some chilli flakes, dried Italian herbs and freshly cracked black pepper
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Cook the bacon in an oven at 200 °C for 20 minutes and allow the bacon to cool on absorbent paper after it has come out of the oven
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In a small ceramic dish place the scallops making sure they are separated and some nobs of butter with some chilli flakes generously sprinkled on top
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Cook the scallops and butter in an oven at 200 °C for 5 minutes and allow the scallops to cool and continue to cook in the butter while preparing the rest of the salad
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Shred the Savoy cabbage and Cos lettuce and put into a mixing bowl
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Slice the green bean and add to the mixing bowl
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Thinly slice the Bird's eye chillies and add to the mixing bowl
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Slice the Spring onions and add to the mixing bowl
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Crumble in the Blue cheese to the mixing bowl
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Add a couple of tablespoons of Donkey sauce and mix everything in the mixing bowl
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Add the room temperature chilli bacon and mix
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Plate up on a plate and then add the scallops
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Spoon over some of the melted chilli butter for an added flavour addition
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Shoot a few photographs and post to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
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Eat the best salad ever
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Wash the dishes
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Write the recipe
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Write a blog post and hope my friends share on social media
The Donkey sauce recipe can be found elsewhere on Yummy Lummy. I hope you like it.
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Photographs
The whole plate
A close-up
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Questions and answers
What made this the best salad ever?
It was a chilli flakes cooked into the bacon and also into the scallops and butter. I think I can add chilli flakes to almost everything I eat. I might even add them to ice cream I reckon.
What’s it like having a party in your mouth?
I really like spicy foods that aren’t eye-watering hot. When I was in New Delhi earlier this year, every meal was spicy but the food wasn’t uncomfortably hot. I love that spicy sensation in my mouth.
What else made this salad memorable?
The crumbled Blue cheese added a creaminess which complemented the chilli really nicely. Not to mention the Donkey sauce which can be used on burgers and ribs.
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You really like spicy food, no? 🙂 I’ve never had scallops.
Sorry, Silvia, this comment got caught in spam. Yes, I do like spicy food. If you can get scallops, they are worth trying.
Yes I can, but I don’t know why i haven’t tried them yet. But I do want to give them a try. 🙂
Now that is a very creative and delicious sounding salad. Good luck with your diet.
Thank you very much Karen 😃
It does look good Gary. Good luck with the weight loss! Are you trying any particular kind of diet?
Thanks, Lorraine. I’ve stopped any added sugar, bread, rice and pasta. It’s not full on Atkins. I want to eat vegetables and fruit. After all, mangoes are in season 😃
Yessss! Butter chilli! I can’t each much chilli, but butter chilli is something I will always have a bit of when it’s there, or butter chilli oil 😃 This salad does look miles better than your average caesar salad. Very good 😀
I love almost everything if it’s with butter (and bacon) Mabel. I loved this salad.
Maybe try to top this salad. It sounds like it will be a hard task 😀
It’s only be if I managed to find a fresh mud crab and added Top End muddie meat 😃
Now you got me thinking of chilli butter crab salad 😃
I may have to try it with tinned crab meat and just be satisfied with that 😃
Tinned crab meat…shock horror. Then again real crabs and crab meat is painful to buy 😀 Now maybe try something more realistic: chilli butter salmon salad 😃
Or prawns 😃 or Moreton Bay bug meat 😋😋😋