Tuna salad

It has been one of my favorities salad for so many years, delicious, easy to prepare and great for sunny day ;)

Recipe: Tuna salad
2 large tomatoes, cut in quarters
1 cucumber cut into quarters
1 green bell pepper, cut in matchstick strips
1 small onion, sliced in rings
lettuce
1 can (6 1/2 or 7 ounces) tuna in vegetable oil
4 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons wine vinegar
1/2 small clove garlic, finely minced
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon dry mustard

Arrange tomato, cucumber, bell paper, and lettuce on a salad serving platter; place pepper strips and onion rings in center. Drain oil from tuna into a small jar; flake tuna and arrange in center of platter. Make salad dressing: add olive oil, wine vinegar, minced garlic, salt, pepper and dry mustard to tuna oil in jar.

Seal tightly and shake vigorously to blend. Sprinkle over tuna salad platter.

Gado gado siram

Gado gado is traditionaly Indonesian salad, mix vegetables with peanut sauce dressing. It sold widely in Indonesia and u can find easy from restaurant up to vendor market. The taste is sweet in eastern Java and salty in western Java. The traditional way of making gado gado was used stone grinder to prepare the peanut sauce. The peanut sauce poured on top of vegetables before served.

Since iam living in "desert" i used vegetables which is available here, even that not reduced the savory :D



For gado gado salad:

Boiled Mix vegetables ( carrot, beans, cabbage, potato, kangkong, long string beans, or any type as u like), tomato, boiled egg, fried tofu, crackers.

For peanut sauce:

ground fried peanuts with most of the oil drained off (u can substitute with peanut butter and peanut oil) 200 gr
garlic 3
palm sugar (can be substituted for brown sugar) 50 gr
red chili 3
lemon or lime juice 1/2

Optional:
terasi (dried shrmp/fish paste) 1/2 tsp
Indonesian sweet soy sauce 1-2 spoon
lemon kafir leaves 2

Grind all the ingiderent using food processor then add hot water to make thick paste. Pour into vegetables salad and served immdiately

Easy macaroni salad

I just remembered before when i was in Jakarta, me and my sister used to sit long hours in pizza restaurant just for enjoyed pizza and salad. We took one ordered salad and shared together, becuase we couldnt finished it all after ate pizza. I loved classic macaroni salad recipe, made with chopped vegetables, onion and mayonese. I used low fat mayonese for healthier salad dressing, yummy ;)

Ingiderent:

• 1 cup cooked elbow macaroni
• 1/4 cup choped onion
• 1/2 cup steam vegetables ( i used brocoli and baby corn, u can select any vegetables as desired)
• salt to tasted
• papper 1/ tsp
• mushroom 1/4 cup, ( i used can mushroom)
• 1/4 or 1/3 cup salad dressing or mayonese

Combine all macaroni salad recipe ingredients, using about 1/4 cup of mayonnaise and stir well. Add a little more mayonnaise, if necessary. Taste and adjust seasonings. Cover and refigerate for several hours before serving. Served cook for best tasted

Chana Chaat salad

I came to know about chat masala from one of my favorite books recipe Sanjev Kapoor, khana Kzana. Its kind of masala used for any Indian salad. Its simpe and easy to prepared and nice smile of masala :)

Just cut into small size cucumber, onion, tomato, and add boiled chick peas. Then add chaat masala 1 tsp, 1 spoon of lemon juice and salt as required. keep on refigerator and served cool.