Growing Chefs! Ontario Chopped Salad
Chopped Salad
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Ingredients
Salad Dressing
Ingredients
Equipment
Get Organized!
Gather your mise en place; get together all of the equipment needed for the recipe and gather your ingredients.
Get Prepped!
Drain and rinse the chickpeas well and add to a large bowl.
Cut the head of iceberg lettuce into quarters, then chop it finely.
Wash the romaine and dry, then cut the head into quarters. Remove the core, then chop finely.
Stack a few slices of salami together, then slice into thin slices, about 2 – 3 centimeters thick.
Remove the top of the tomato, then cut into quarters. Chop into pieces roughly the size of a quarter.
Remove the tip of the cucumber, then cut into quarters. Chop into pieces the same size as the pieces of tomato.
Cut the tip and root of the onion off and discard. Cut in half and remove the peel of the onion. Cut the onion into pieces a bit smaller than your tomato and cucumber.
Cut the olives in half and remove the pits.
Combine all ingredients processed so far into one large bowl.
Get Cooking!
In a small mixing bowl, combine vinegar, honey and mustard and whisk well. Slowly stream the olive oil into this mixture while whisking. Once all of the oil is added, add the oregano and with salt and pepper. Pour this mixture over the bowl of ingredients. season
To basil, stack a few leaves on top of each other and roll them up tightly. Slice this into thin slices, and combine with the salad. chiffonade
Tear the mozzarella into bite size pieces and then gently into the salad, leaving some to top for garnish. fold
Bowl up the salad and enjoy, with any extra basil and cheese! garnish
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