As-You-Like-It Chopped Salad

Please everyone with a mixed platter of cucumber, beetroot, radish, carrot, sweetcorn, avocado and onion

• Cooking Time Prep 15 mins
  
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 6 - 8

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  178

• Protein

  5g

• Carbs

  14g

• Fat

  13g

• Saturates

  2g

• Fibre

  7g

• Sugar

  12g

• Salt

  1.1g

Ingredients

• 1 red onion, very thinly sliced
• 100g radishes, quartered
• For the cucumber & beetroot
• 1 tbsp toasted poppy seed
• zest and juice 1 lemon
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp golden caster sugar
• 1 cucumber, halved lengthways, seeds scooped out, then sliced
• 250g pack cooked beetroot, chunkily diced
• For the carrot
• 2 large carrots, coarsely grated
• juice ½ orange
• ½ tsp ground cumin
• For the corn
• 340g can sweetcorn, drained well
• 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced
• squeeze lime juice
• For the avocados
• 2 quite ripe avocados, halved, peeled, stoned and diced
• squeeze lime juice

Directions

1. For the cucumber and beetroot, mix the poppy seeds, lemon zest and juice, oil and sugar. Tip half into a bowl with the cucumber, the other half into a separate bowl with the beetroot, and mix each.
2. Mix the carrot ingredients together, the corn ingredients together and the avocado ingredients together.
3. Pile the different elements in strips across a large platter. Cover and chill for up to 2 hrs, or serve straight away.

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