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Servings: 3 servings

Summer Salad

A beautiful serving on the dinner table. Easy and colorful with fresh baby spinach, new potatoes, fried turkey bacon, and creamy feta.
Author: Anders
Course: Salad
Cuisine: Danish
Keyword: cheese, Dinner, Lunch, Potato, Salad, Sides, tomato, Vegetables
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 125 gram Baby Spinach
  • 3 pcs. Tomato we used the kind you buy in a bucket
  • 0.25 pcs. Cucumber
  • 150 gram Feta for example Puck, around 1/3 of a pack
  • 500 gram Potato new
  • 1 pcs. Beetroot fresh
  • 2 slices Parma Ham
  • 125 gram Turkey Bacon
  • 100 gram Carrots we used snack carrots
  • 144 gram Sour Cream
  • Chives fresh
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper from a grinder - to taste
  • Oil neutral taste - for frying

Instructions

  • Rinse the new potatoes and optionally scrub them lightly.
  • Halve the potatoes.
  • Cut the snack carrots into pieces of 3 centimeters in length.
  • Fill a pot with water and add a little salt. You can also add some fresh herbs to the water, for example, fresh thyme sprigs. It adds a lovely flavor to the potatoes! Boil the potatoes until tender. When the potatoes are about halfway done, add the carrots to the pot.
  • Drain the water from the potatoes and carrots and let them cool.
  • Heat a pan over medium-high heat.
  • Find a chopping board and a knife and cut the Parma ham into strips 3 centimeters wide.
  • Add a little oil to the hot pan.
  • Fry the ham strips until crispy and place them on some kitchen paper.
  • Cut the turkey bacon into strips 1 centimeter wide. Optionally, add a bit more oil to the pan if you like.
  • Fry the bacon strips until crispy and likewise place them on some kitchen paper. Peel the beetroot and slice it.
  • Fry the beetroot slices in a bit of oil on the pan.
  • Remove the pan from the heat and turn off the burner.
  • Take a small bowl and add the sour cream to it.
  • Finely chop the chives and mix them into the sour cream.
  • Season the dressing with salt. Rinse the spinach leaves and let them drain well in a colander.
  • Rinse the tomatoes and cut them in half.
  • Rinse the cucumber, slice it, and cut the slices into quarters.
  • Cut the feta into cubes approximately 2 centimeters in size.
  • Arrange your lovely summer salad on a large platter with the fresh spinach leaves at the bottom and the dressing on top.
  • Finally, grind some fresh pepper over the salad and serve.

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