Sommersalat Summer Salad Food

COUSCOUS SUMMER SALAD

Steps:

• Combine couscous, cherries, cumin, coriander, and salt and pepper in a bowl. Pour warm broth over everything and let stand until the couscous is cooked, about 5 minutes. Let it cool.
• Toss everything together and season to taste!

SOMMERSALAT (SUMMER SALAD)

Steps:

• Trim lettuce and separate leaves. Wash and drain well.
• Mix lettuce with potatoes, eggs and green peas. Chill.
• Mix oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and sugar. Toss salad with salad dressing.
• Pour mixture into a salad bowl. Garnish with slices of tomatoes.

LAYERED SUMMER SALAD

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the yellow pepper, lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon olive oil and toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper and transfer to a clear serving bowl.
• Repeat with remaining vegetables, tossing each in a different juice or vinegar and oil combination, spreading each in a thin layer in the bowl.

BRIGHT SUMMER SALAD

Steps:

• Clean corn, blanch three minutes in boiling water. Transfer to extremely hot grill or grill pan and grill until there are deep brown grill stripes on the corn. (Alternately, just cook the corn on the grill.) Slice corn from the cob, place in bowl.
• Cut tomatoes to a 3/8" dice, add to corn in bowl.
• Peel and dice red onion to 1/4" dice or smaller. Add to bowl.
• Remove seeds, ribs and inner membrane from jalapeno, chop very fine. Add to bowl.
• Chiffonade basil; should be about 1/2 cup after slicing. Add to bowl.
• Chop cilantro; should be a scant 1/4 cup after chopping. Add to bowl.
• Add salt, add lime juice, toss. Chill if desired, or serve immediately.