Salade composée

That came as a complement to 2 pizzas shared between three people. The cost of it is quite ridiculous and I estimate it to be around 0.7£ although nothing was bought for the salad since everything was already in the fridge.

Pour one spoonful of vinegar in a large salad bowl. Add a teaspoon of mustard, salt, pepper, paprika and some dried herbs. Add fresh mint and basil leaves. Mix very well.
Add two spoons of olive oil and mix thoroughly.

Cut 2 tomatoes. Add in the bowl. Encounter by chance a pack of almond flakes in a cupboard and pour some in the bowl. Cut bread in small pieces and fry it in a bit of oil in a pan to create croutons.
Cut half a lettuce, add in the bowl, add the croutons, mix, Finished!

Salade Libanaise

I had this salad in a lebanese restaurant several times. And yesterday evening I just wanted to do it. Not able to remember the lebanese name of that salad, I could not find the recipe and hence, was forced to improvised.


Cut a cucumber without the seeds in small cubes. Cut 3 tomatoes without the seeds in little cubes. Cut half a purple onion in small bits. Mix the whole. Add mint leaves according to your taste and the strength of their flavour. Add some parsley, salt and pepper.
Pour in the juice of two lemons and 2 dessert spoons of olive oil. Mix well.

Now, take some bread (best would be lebanese bread of course but some normal bread for toasting can be used). Cut it in cubes as well and apply pressure on each of them to make the bread denser. Try to make the cubs flat.
Then fry quickly in a bit of olive oil. Add the bread in the salad at the moment of serving.