Red and white cabbage shredded
1 pkt Shogun noodles with vegetable flavouring
Crack noodles and cook according to directions. Put on a baking sheet, add 1 pkt flaked almonds and 1 cup sunflower seeds. Dry in oven � start at 180* and then put it lower. Turn and watch carefully. This takes about � hour. Do that ahead and put in an airtight container.
Sauce: Vegetable sachet from noodles or cube
1 cup boiling water
� cup oil
� cup vinegar
1 Tbl soya sauce
� cup sugar
Stir and dissolve.
Mix together just before serving.
Bev�s Waldorf Salad.
50 ml oil
50 ml lemon juice
100 ml mayonnaise
250 ml natural yogurt
salt and pepper
6 chopped red and green apples
6 sliced celery sticks
2 small onions sliced
100 ml saltanas and raisins
chopped walnuts
Gaby�s Cabbage Salad
1 medium cabbage � shredded finely
1 tsp grated onion
1 bunch chopped soup celery
3 � 4 chopped garlic cloves
Dressing:
� cup oil
� cup white vinegar
� cup sugar
salt and sugar
Marinade for a day.
Rochelle�s Noodle Salad
1 cup frozen mixed veggies � soften in microwave
1 pkt boiled noodles
tin of unsweetened sliced peaches � chopped
� to 1 tsp curry mixed with mayo to cover
Mix together when cool.
Another Cabbage Salad
Small chopped onion
2 � 4 garlic cloves
1 cup brown sugar
� cup oil
1 cup vinegar
chopped parsley
saltanas
Blend and pour over shredded cabbage.
Myrna�s Salad
5 � 6 bananas
1 chopped pineapple
mayo to mix
Gaby�s Mushrom Salad
Slice a pkt of button mushrooms and marinade in Italian Salad Dressing.
Gracie�s Layered Salad
Layer in a glass bowl:
Shredded lettuce
Round slices of carrots
Sliced celery
Sliced mushrooms
Sliced radishes
Frozen peas
Mayonnaise
Grated hard boiled egg
Grated cheese
Paprika
Rochelle�s Cucumber and Pineapple Salad
1 pkt lemon jelly
1 cup boiling water
1 cup grated cucumber
� cup crushed canned pineapple
� cup chopped nuts
� cup mayonnaise
1 finely chopped green pepper
shredded lettuce
Dissolve jelly in water and cool. Combine ingredients and chill in a ring mould. Unmould on shredded lettuce.
Cauliflower Salad
1 cauliflower, broken in flowerettes
� cup finely chopped onion � 1 use far less
1 cup chopped parsley
mayonnaise to mix
1 Tbl honey
� cup sour cream or yogurt � optional
salt and black pepper to taste
Blanch cauliflower in boiling water for 4 minutes. Combine rest of ingredients and mix together.
Lily�s Beetroot Salad
Boil 2 bunches beetroot in water for a long time. Peel while hot and cool slightly.
Slice with onions
2 cups water
1 cup vinegar
salt and pepper
� - � cup sugar.
Beata�s Cucumber Salad
Slice 1 English cucumber thinly. Salt it and put it in a colander to drain. Cover it and put a weight on top.
Add � cup vinegar and � cup sugar
Add chopped parsley and chives
Add black pepper and a little water.
Joan�s Curried Bananas
+/- 6 bananas
1 tsp curry
2 tsp apricot jam
juice of one lemon
Mix last three ingredients together in a cup and fill with mayo. Dilute with a bit of water and pour over the bananas.
Jenny�s Three Bean Salad
3 tins beans
1 chopped red pepper
1 chopped green pepper
1 chopped onion
Dressing: 1 cup vinegar
� cup oil
� cup brown sugar
� cup saltanas
Mix salad ingredients. Then bring the dressing to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes � until the sugar has dissolved. Pour hot dressing over the salad.
Sunya�s Papino Salad
Dressing:
2 tsp mustard powder
2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
4 Tbl Papino pips
1 small onion
Blend all together, plus 1 cup veg oil and 1 cup white vinegar.
Salad:
Mixed lettuce
2 � 3 papinos � sliced
1 avocado � diced
Pecan nuts � whole.
Sunya�s Spinach and Strawberry Salad
About 1 pkt Spinach � 300 � 450 gr
About 2 cartons strawberries halved
1 pkt slithered or flaked toasted almonds
Dressing:
� cup sugar
1 Tbl poppyseed
� tsp worcester sauce
� cup veg oil
2 Tbl sesame seeds
� tsp chopped onion
� tsp paprika
� cup white vinegar
Leslie�s Avo Salad
Arrange in order:
Few thin slices green pepper
Small onion � thinly sliced
Tinned sliced mushrooms
Sliced avocado.
Dressing:
� cup vinegar
� cup oil
black pepper
1 tsp dry mustard
celery salt
2 tsp sugar
Shake and pour over
Jean�s Salad
1 butter lettuce
6 � 8 spinach leaves
310 gr mandarins � drained
1 Tbl toasted pine nuts
1 cup seedless grapes
1 avocado
2 tsp lemon juice
Dressing:
� cup balsamic Vinegar
� cup olive oil
1 tsp soya sauce
1 Tbl brown sugar
� tsp salt
2 Tbl spring onions � chopped
Wash and dry the spinach and lettuce. Arrange on platter and scatter mandarins, pine nuts, grapes on top. Dip avo pieces in lemon juice and add to salad.
Mix dressing together add just before serving.
Maureen�s Spinach Mandarin Salad
1 bunch spinach
1 butter lettuce
1 tin drained mandarins
2 sliced avos
beansprouts
button mushrooms � optional
spring onions
Dressing:
� cup oil
1/3 cup vinegar � pref apple cider
2 Tbl brown sugar
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp soya sauce
1/3 cup juice from mandarins
garlic salt
Mix together and dress. Then sprinkle toasted almonds on top.
Ruth�s Broccoli Salad
4 � 5 cups broccoli � broken into florets
1 red onion chopped finely.
� cup sunflower seeds
1 cup cashew nuts � optional
� cup raisins
4 carrots � sliced into rings
Blanch broccoli. Mix all together. Best made day before. Only add nuts at last minute.
Dressing:
1/3 cup white vinegar
� cup sugar
� cup mayo
Ruth�s Secret Cabbage Salad
1 cabbage
5 � 6 Spring onions � sliced
� cup peanuts
� - � cups sunflower seeds
� cup sesame seeds
Dressing:
� cup sugar
� cup white vinegar
� cup oil
4 Tbl soya sauce
Finely shred cabbage and spring onions.
Fry or microwave separately all the nuts.
Prepare dressing in a jar and shake very well.
Toss nuts on cabbage and add dressing just before serving.
Leslie�s Almond Salad
� cup sliced almonds
heaped T sugar
Cook over low heat - stirring all the time until covered.
1 small lettuce
2 tins mandarins
2 stalks chopped celery
spring onions chopped
Dressing: � cup oil
2 Tbl sugar
2 Tbl white vinegar
1 Tbl snipped parsley
1/2 tsp salt and dash pepper.
Put salad stuff on platter. � pour over dressing and crunch almonds on top.
Confetti Salad
2 small baby red cabbages � very finely shredded
2 small baby green cabbages, very finely shredded
150 gr fresh spinach, very finely shredded
1 pineapple julienned
4 med carrots julienned
1 med green pawpaw julienned
6 spring onions, cut on diagonal
1/3 cup toasted sesame seeds
50 gr caramelised pecans or almonds chopped
Dressing:
60 ml (4 Tbl) soft brown sugar
60 ml (4Tbl) light olive oil
1 tsp sesame oil
2 Tbl freshly chopped ginger
juice of 1 lemon
6 Tbl rice vinegar � or apple cider diluted with water (� cup apple cider vinegar diluted with 4 Tbl water. Mix and store in a bottle)
Mix all salad ingredients together. Just before serving pour over dressing and sesame seeds.
Place on a platter and then sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Creamy spinach salad with smoked salmon
1 bunch fresh spinach, spine removed and very finely shredded
1 red leaf lettuce, shredded very finely
4 hard boiled eggs, coarsely chopped
� lb smoked salmon cut into very fine strips
croutons
Dressing:
1 cup sweet mayonnaise
� cup cream or non-dairy cream
2 Tbl white wine vinegar
2 Tbs rasberry vinegar or sherry vinegar
salt and pepper
- Whisk all dressing ingredients together. Dressing can be made and kept in fridge for up to 1 week ahead.
- Place all salad ingredients together in a bowl, except croutons and place in fridge
- Just before serving toss with dressing and top with croutons.
- Tip � leave out salmon and place some on top just before serving if making individual starter plates.
- Serves 6 - 8