Grilled Pepper And Asparagus Salad Recipe
This is such an easy and super healthy salad to prepare. It's fresh,
colourful and packed with flavour.
This recipe will serve two people
Ingredients
1 yellow
pepper
1 red
pepper
8
Asparagus spears
100g
fresh rocket
Rock salt to season
For the dressing
1 bunch
of basil
80ml
olive oil
Method
Turn the
oven on to 180 degrees. When the oven has reached its temperature, place the
red and yellow peppers onto a baking tray; rub with olive oil and rock salt.
Place them into the oven. After 10 minutes, check to see how the peppers are
looking, if the skin is starting to shrivel on the pepper, and the flesh of the
pepper is cooked, remove the peppers from the oven. The trick here is, you want
the skin to be really cooked, but you want to avoid over cooking the whole
pepper.
Once you
have removed the peppers from the oven, place them into a plastic bag and tie
it shut, so that all the heat from the pepper stays inside the bag. Set this to
one side
In the
mean time, clean the asparagus spears, removing the woody ends off the bottom
of each asparagus. Get a pot that is large enough, so that the whole asparagus
fits into it, and fill with water. Bring the water to the boil, and blanch the
asparagus.
Once the
asparagus has blanch (the green colour has turn really bright, and the
asparagus is soft enough to eat, but not over cooked) remove the asparagus from
the boiling water and refresh them with iced cold water. Set aside to cool
Take the
bag with the peppers. Remove all the outer skin from both peppers as well as
all the seeds and any part that is not edible. Tear the peppers into large
pieces, roughly 4 pieces per pepper. Heat a griddled pan and when it is really
hot, place the pieces of pepper onto the grill. The pepper needs to be on the
grill just long enough to get the colour and marks from the grill. This step is
not a must; it just adds visual effect to the final dish.
Take the
cooled asparagus, and at an angle, cut each one in half. Now place 8 halves of
asparagus and 4 quarters of pepper into the centre of the serving plate, layering
them to achieve height and assorted colours.
With a
blender, blend together the fresh basil and oil, if the dressing is not a runny
enough consistency, add a little more oil. Season to taste and dress the salad
with it
Bon Appétit