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Healthy Potato and Beetroot Salad

 This is a delicious and fresh tasting salad.

 Serves 2

Cooking time:

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Ingredients

  • 150g New season potatoes (or 2cm cubed Roosters or baby potatoes)
  • 3 cooked beetroots, cut into quarters
  • 2 spring onions, chopped
  • ½ bag watercress, large stalks removed
  • 1 packet cress

For the dressing

  • 1tbsp low fat crème fraiche
  • 2tsp mayonnaise
  • 1tsp grain mustard
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • ½ tsp poppy seeds

To Cook

Cook the potatoes in salted boiling water until tender. Drain and leave to cool a little then slice into bite sized pieces.

Take a large mixing bowl and whisk together all the ingredients for the dressing. Whilst the potatoes are still warm toss them into the dressing along with the spring onions.

Roughly chop the watercress, fold into the salad with the beetroot but don’t mix too vigorously otherwise the salad will go pink. Just before serving sprinkle over the cress and serve.

For more delicious and healthy potato recipes visit www.potato.ie/recipes/

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Tomato, Red Onion and Avocado Salad

Ingredients

  • 250g cherry Tomatoes, halved
  • 1 red onion, finely chopped
  • 1 large avocado, halved, stoned, peeled and diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 red chilli, seeded and finely chopped
  • 1 tablesp. fresh lime juice
  • 2 tablesp. olive oil

To Cook

Mix all the salad ingredients together. Taste and season with salt and black pepper.

Serving Suggestions

Tastes great with Spicy Beef Tortilla Wraps or with Spicy Lamb Cutlets.

http://www.bordbia.ie/consumer/recipes/side/pages/tomatoredonionandavocadosalad.aspx

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Smoked Mackerel Mousse.

smoked-mackerel

Serves: 15

Ingredients

  • 300ml Millac Gold Double or cooking cream
  • 300g Skinned smoked mackerel fillets
  • Juice from 2 medium lemons
  • 75g Lakeland Dairies Unsalted butter
  • 2 tspn Horseradish sauce
  • 2 tspn Dijon mustard
  • 1 level tspn Ground black pepper
  • 1 cucumber

Method

Put the cucumber aside.

Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend until you achieve a smooth past, scrapping down as necessary.

Cut the cucumber into 0.5cm slices and arrange on a plate, pipe the mousse onto the cucumber slices or quenelle using two dessert spoons.

http://www.pritchitts.com/recipes/smoked-mackerel-mousse