Oriental style salad

Here I am with my first recipe… It’s a fairly simple salad but it makes a really delicious lunch!

Salad ingredients
salad greens
4-5 leaves of chinese cabbage
2 small carrots
a handful of  blanched soy sprouts
fresh coriander (or parsley)
lemongrass (fresh if possible)
sunflower seeds
a small slice of seitan
seame oil
soy sauce

Dressing ingredients
1 teaspoon vegetable oil (I used peanut oil)
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
½ teaspoon ginger powder
salt

Method
First of all cook the seitan. In this case I had a chunk of grilled seitan at hand (leftover from a barbecue!), but normally I would cut the seitan in slices or small chunks, stir-fry it in a wok or non-stick pan well coated with hot sesame oil, and in the end add a generous dash of soy sauce, it should almost glaze.

Then the salad: make a bed of salad greens. Shred the cabbage, grate the carrots, chop up coriander or parsley and the lemongrass, and mix it all adding sunflower seed and soy sprouts (I didn’t have any sprouts but they do make a nice addition to this salad). Lay the mix on the bed of greens. If you don’t have fresh lemongrass, dried lemongrass will do, but in that case I suggest adding it to the dressing and letting it stay for a while (even better, grind it up before adding it the to dressing).

Then, prepare the dressing by mixing all ingredients together. Dress the salad and add the seitan. Since this was my lunch box, I let the seitan cool down completely before adding it to the salad, and kept the dressing separate using the little jar you can see in the photo, but you could also serve it lukewarm. Beware, the dressing quantity is a little on the low side, I’m not a huge fan of greasy salads but this  was especially light . Feel free to double the dose!

1. Mimi 20 April 2010 at 13:43

   

   Lia Wow, what a beautiful dish! Congratulations and welcome to the world of veganwiz

   
   
2. Lia 20 April 2010 at 13:44

   

   Thank you Mimi 🙂 I’m happy to be here!

   
   
3. Chicca66 20 April 2010 at 17:05

   

   O ieah! Welcome here Lia 🙂

   
   
4. Pizza pie 20 April 2010 at 19:26

   

   I’m very happy to find you here! Welcome to you!

   
   
5. Tippitappi 20 April 2010 at 19:27

   

   light and delicious, my favourite!
   Welcome Lia!!!!!!!

   
   
6. Lia 20 April 2010 at 20:42

   

   Thank you!!!!

   
   
7. Maeuschen 20 April 2010 at 20:49

   

   WoW Outstanding first recipe!!! Welcome Lady Lia!!!
   Lots of love 😀

   
   
8. Lia 3 May 2010 at 21:40

   

   Thank you Maeuschen… nice to see you here too 😉