Ellens Easy Napa Salad Food

HEALTHY NAPA CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• For the tarragon yogurt dressing: Put the yogurt, mustard, honey, vinegar, celery seed and tarragon in a small bowl. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and about 1/8 teaspoon pepper and whisk to combine.
• For the chicken salad: Combine the chicken, grapes, almonds, celery and onion in a medium bowl. Add the dressing to the chicken mixture and toss until evenly coated.
• Serve the chicken salad on top of butter lettuce, cucumber slices, rice cakes, your favorite bread or even by itself!

NAPA SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Combine dressing ingredients together in a shaker bottle and chill.
• 2. Clean and chop lettuce and cabbage, chill.
• 3. In a sautee pan, melt 5 Tbsp of butter, break Ramen noodles into the pan and add sunflower seeds and slivered almonds. Cook until golden brown and set aside to cool.
• 4. Just before serving and when mix in pan has cooled, toss together leaf mixture with seed mixture, add dressing and serve promptly. YUMMMmmmmmm!
• 5. ***Note: If you are taking the salad elsewhere other than your own kitchen and diningroom table, Be sure that you dont mix everything together until its ready to be served.

ELLEN'S EASY NAPA SALAD

Steps:

• Topping--melt butter in large skillet, brown sesame seeds, almonds, sunflower seeds and ramen noodles until golden brown.
• Drain on paper towels and cool.
• Dressing-- mix sugar, oil, vinegar and soy sauce in small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat until sugar is disolved.
• Cool.
• Salad-- slice cabbage into ribbons and toss with green onions.
• To serve-- mound salad into bowl, sprinkle on desired amount of topping, and drizzle on desired amount of dressing.

NAPA CABBAGE SLAW

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together garlic, zest and juice of lime, vinegar, soy sauce, and chili oil. Season with salt; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, toss together cabbage, pepper slices, scallions, daikon, snow peas, and chives. Pour dressing over the slaw, toss to combine, and serve.

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD WITH PEANUTS AND GINGER

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, mustard, ginger, and oils until dressing is smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
• In a large bowl, combine cabbage, bell pepper, cilantro, and peanuts. Add dressing to taste, and toss to combine. Serve.

SWEET NAPA SALAD

Steps:

• Set aside one seasoning packet from ramen noodles for dressing (save the remaining seasoning packet for another use). Break noodles into small pieces; place in a large salad bowl. Add the cabbage, onions, pineapple, cherries, almonds and sesame seeds. , In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the remaining ingredients. Add contents of reserved seasoning packet; shake well. Pour over cabbage mixture; toss to coat. Serve immediately.

ELLEN'S YUMMY PASTA SALAD

Steps:

• Cook and drain pasta of your choice according to package directions.
• Drain and rinse with cold water.
• May also place in an ice water bath.
• Toss pasta with 1/2 bottle salad seasoning, or to your taste.
• Add chopped veggies and dressing.
• Chill for at least 2 hours before seving.

ELLEN'S 7 LAYER SALAD

Steps:

• Layer first six ingredients in your favorite see-through dish or bowl.
• Mix mayo, sugar and milk with wire whisk until smooth.
• Pour over to cover completely.
• Sprinkle with grated cheese.
• Refridgerate several hours before serving.

ELLEN'S BLUEBERRY SALAD

Steps:

• In a 9x9 dish dissolve jello in hot water, and let cool.
• Stir in pie filling, and pineapple with juice. Refrigerate until set.
• Mix whipped topping and softened cream cheese.
• Spread on top of jello mixture.
• Sprinkle nuts on top. Return to refrigerator.

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Finely shred the head of cabbage; do not chop. Combine the green onions and cabbage in a large bowl, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Make the crunchies: Melt the butter in a pot. Mix the ramen noodles, sesame seeds and almonds into the pot with the melted butter. Spoon the mixture onto a baking sheet and bake the crunchies in the preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven, turning often to make sure they do not burn. When they are browned remove them from the oven.
• Make the dressing: In a small saucepan, heat vinegar, oil, sugar, and soy sauce. Bring the mixture to a boil, let boil for 1 minute. Remove the pan from heat and let cool.
• Combine dressing, crunchies, and cabbage immediately before serving. Serve right away or the crunchies will get soggy.

NAPA SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare cabbage as you would lettuce for salad.
• In small bowl, mix noodles, nuts and seeds.
• Set aside.
• In quart jar add vinegar and sugar, shake to dissolve sugar.
• Add soy sauce and oil.
• Put cabbage in bowl.
• top with nut mixture and pour dressing on top.
• Best when nut mixture stays.
• separate until ready to eat so noodles don't get soggy.

NAPA CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Put the garlic in a large salad bowl and mix in all the remaining ingredients except the cabbage.
• Trim the cabbage, removing and discarding damaged or wilted leaves, and cut the head crosswise into 1-inch slices. You should have about 8 cups. Wash well and spin dry in a salad dryer (moisture would dilute the dressing). Ten or 15 minutes before serving, add the cabbage to the dressing, toss well and set aside, so the dressing can penetrate the cabbage and soften it slightly.