In princeton U. cafeteria, salad bar use to sell salad with title: Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD salad where one could choose 2, 3, 5 ingredients, respectively. The postdoc salad is our own extension of the series with 7 or more ingredients and its eaten quite frequently for lunch during weekdays. Make sure that individual ingredients taste good for a superb salad!
Serves: 4 for appetizer or 2 for lunch
Salad Ingredients:
3 cups organic spring mix
1 ripe avocado
1 big tomato or 4-5 grape tomatoes
1 seedless cucumber
4-5 small mozzarella balls
1/2 cup sprouts (lentils, onion or fenugreek)
1 big orange or two tangerines
1/4 cup grapes
3-4 strawberries
2 tbsp nuts (cashew or pine nuts)
2 tbsp sweet nuts (resins or cranberries)
Dressing: Balsamic Vinaigrette
4 tbsp extra virgin oil
1 and 1/2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 garlic minced
salt to taste
pepper to taste
- add all the ingredients of the dressing in a small bowl and mix with fork
- mix all the ingredients of salad in a big bowl except dressing, avocado and mozzarella
- add dressing to the big bowl when you are about to eat the salad and toss everything together
- finally add the mozzarella cheese & avocado and slightly toss again. Your salad is ready to be served!
PS. Make sure that you add dressing only when you are about to eat the salad. If traveling or at work, replace dressing with pure olive oil and it still tastes great
PPS. Remove or add any other ingredients (boiled chickpeas, radish etc) according to your taste and make sure that there are at least five ingredients and not more than ten.
3 comments:
Looks beautiful.. so many sprouts and nuts in this post doc. I am sure many people will want to be post docs just to eat this salad :)
By the way, what salad dressing do you use?
Thanks I:) At home: we usually make balsamic vinaigrette(3:1 ratio of olive oil and vinegar). At univ, we add lots of olive oil which also tastes great:)
@Isha: some post-docs are eating salad more frequently after being inspired by Sanjana's "post-doc" salad !
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