Salad Week

Most of you in Malaysia who loves durians would feel sinful that you have taken too much durians for the past week. Well, its time to get back into shape and shed off some durian fats. Here's couple of salad that I made for the whole week that you can indulge in your diet plan.

Thai Mango Salad with Grill Chicken




Ingredients:
1/2 grill chicken chop into small pieces, remove bones
2 mango slice into cubes
1 bowl of mix pasta
1 tomato cut into cubes
2 bunch of baby lettuce
2 tablespoon Thai chili sauce
1/2 teaspoon fish sauce
1/2 lime or lemon



Method:
Mix chicken, mango, tomato, lettuce & pasta into salad bowl.
Pour in Thai chili sauce, fish sauce and lime & mix thoroughly
Serve immediately

Note:
Do not keep this salad too long as the lime/lemon & Thai chili sauce
will make the lettuce soggy.




Spiral Pasta Salad with Honey Glazed Ham




Ingredients:
1 pc of thick honey glazed ham, sliced into small cubes
(you can use any type of ham you like)
1 bowl of cooked spiral pasta
1 onions chop fine
1/2 lettuce chop fine
some sesame seed & black pepper
1 tablespoon low fat mayonnaise
1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon olive oil

Method:
In a salad bowl mix ham, lettuce, pasta, onions
Mix in thoroughly with mayonnaise, lemon and olive oil
Refrigerate salad before serving
Garnish with sesame seed & black pepper



I got this interesting Italian salad dressing called 'Salad Magic'. In fact, its really does magic without oil, cholesterol and 99% fat free. So what are you waiting for? Go grab a bottle.





Grill Squid with Mango & Italian Dressing Salad



Ingredients:
3 squid, cleaned and cut into ring
1 Japanese cucumber, cut into small cubes
1/2 carrot, grated short and fine
1 bowl cooked spiral pasta
1 baby butterhead
1 mango sliced into thin strips
Some sesame seeds & dry parsley
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 onion chop fine
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
pinch of salt
2 tablespoon Italian dressing sauce


Method:
Heat up pan with oil, fry onions until fragrant.
Quickly put in squid with fish sauce, sesame oil, salt and stir fry for 1/2min
(Do not over cook squid)
Dish it out and set it on some butterhead
Mix pasta, cucumber and carrot with Italian dressing sauce
Serve salad with squid and mango slices
Garnish with parsley and sesame seed
You can serve this salad as an appetizer for guests



I love mine mix all together and have it with some Thai fragrant rice...







One of my colleague ask me, how do you make kids eat vegetables? I know some kids don't like vegetables. It's easy...just make the dish looks like their cartoon show. Make shapes out of vegetables.



Tuna Salad with Bears & Stars...Weeeeee!



Ingredients:
1 can of tuna in brine (water), remove water and mash it up
1 stick celery slice finely
1 cup of boiled corn
2 bunch of baby lettuce
1 cup of pasta
1 carrot slice thinly (I use shapes slices to cut it, this makes it fun for kids)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon Italian dressing sauce
pinch of salt
some dry dill


Method:
Mix lettuce, corn, celery, pasta in a salad bowl
Add in olive oil, Italian dressing, salt and mix thoroughly
Serve with tuna on top and carrots
Garnish with dry dills