Avocado and baby gem lettuce salad is yet another healthy option for your lunch or brunch, quickly prepared within 10 to 15 minutes with Avocado, gem lettuce and some more ingredients. And here is how it goes.

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Ingredients:

1 ripe Avocado fruit

2 baby gem lettuce heads

3-4 large regular lettuce leaves (e.g. flat or curly, preferably red & green colour mixed)

5-7 crips cherry tomatoes or Italian plum tomatoes, red and yellow mixed

2-3 fresh spring onions

A hand full of pine nuts, pumpkin seeds or similar to own taste

Mixed herbs

1 tbsp of olive oil

1 tsp of lemon juice

Salt and pepper

Photo via LadyPens.com

Preparation:

Put the presentation plate in place. Wash, dry and arrange the regular lettuce leaves in the centre of the plate.

Wash and half the small cherry or plum tomatoes, and arrange them nicely in the centre on top of the mixed lettuce leaves.

Remove the stone from the Avocado fruit, remove the skin and cut the Avocado into thin slices. Arrange these slices in the top part of the plate, partly inter-joining the lettuce leaves.

Prepare the dressing with olive oil, lemon juice and mixed herbs to taste and add salt and pepper according to your own taste s well. Observe that the dressing will be distributed among a number of items on the plate, and should therefore on its own taste much stronger than it will eventually in connection with the other ingredients on the plate.

Now, wash and dry the baby gems, half the heads straight through with a sharp knife and put them for about 5 minutes on a relatively hot griddle pan. At the end of the process you should have a nice brown pattern from the griddle pan on the underside, where the lettuce will be slightly wilted. It lifts its taste a good bit if you can work this perfectly out.

While you are doing this, put another small pan on the fire until really hot, and add some pine nuts, pumpkin seeds or any other type of nuts or seeds you’d like to put on top. These nuts or seeds are going to be toasted.

Photo of a similar dish via The English Kitchen

Finally put the gently browned baby gem halves on the plate in a nice pattern over the leaves or on the side of them, pour the dressing carefully over the arrangement on the plate and top everything off with the toasted nuts or seeds while they are still hot. Now serve immediately. Baby gem and toasted nuts or seeds must be still warm when the dish hits the table. Enjoy a colourful, healthy and tasty salad for everyday use, which was prepared in just 10 to 15 minutes.

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