Whichever means you intend to take pleasure in your Heritage Day braai, we have now three must-have avo-laden salads to accompany your festivities … the quintessential braai salad, a biltong salad and a boerewors salad.
Naturally, avocados are the celebrities of all three of those braai sides, including a very good dose of copper, fibre and antioxidants to your meals. Copper is understood to assist immune system operate whereas fibre is important for good intestine well being and antioxidants are highly effective meals parts that preserve and regulate immune operate.
So whether or not you’re indulging in shisa nyama, grilled peri-peri hen and masala chops, bangers and rashers, plant-based protein, or a full-on Mzansi braai with the works, upsize your heritage quota and add avocados to your Heritage Day desk.
Avo and biltong Greek salad
Serves 6
You’ll want: 2 giant ripe avocados; 400g cherry or cocktail tomatoes; 2 English cucumbers; 200g feta cheese; 150g olives; 15g recent herbs, dill, parsley or chives (one or a mixture of all three); 70g biltong, sliced.
For the dressing – 150ml avocado oil or olive oil; 75ml lemon juice; 20g recent herbs; sea salt and floor pepper.
How you can:
Whisk the dressing components collectively in a jug or shake in a screw-top jar.
Reduce and peel the avocados, take away pips and minimize into quarters. Reduce the tomatoes in half lengthways.
Reduce the cucumber into chunky quarters. Reduce the feta cheese into cubes, or crumble. Put the avocado, tomatoes, cucumber in a big bowl, add the olives and toss the components collectively gently.
Scatter the feta cheese and biltong excessive and garnish with chopped recent dill, mint and parsley.
The dressing could also be served individually.
Avo and boerewors salad
Serves 4
You’ll want: 2 giant ripe avocados; 650g boerewors; 2-3 giant, candy potatoes, ideally orange (could be substituted for butternut); 50ml avocado oil or olive oil; 1 tablespoon braai spice; 100ml candy chilli sauce; recent herbs or microgreens for garnish.
How you can:
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Scrub the candy potatoes, minimize them into wedges, drizzle with oil and sprinkle with braai spice. Roast on an oven tray for 30-40 minutes till cooked by way of and the sides are properly charred.
Take away the casing from the boerewors and with moist arms roll the sausage meat into meatballs, the scale of a ping-pong ball or walnut.
Fry the boerewors balls in a non-stick pan till golden brown and cooked by way of roughly 10 minutes.
To assemble the salad, prepare the candy potatoes and boerewors on a platter, peel and quarter the avocados and place on the platter, drizzle with candy chilli sauce and garnish with herbs or microgreens, serve heat.
Three ingredient avo braai salad
Serves 6
You’ll want: 4 complete ripe avocados; 1 English cucumber; 1 pink onion, finely diced.
For the dressing – ¼ cup soya sauce; 3 tablespoons honey; 1 teaspoon chilli flakes (non-compulsory); recent chives to garnish.
How you can:
Peel and take away the pip from the avocado and minimize into quarters. Halve the cucumber and minimize it into 3-4 cm slices. Slice the cucumber.
Toss the salad components collectively in a bowl.
To make the dressing whisk the soya sauce and honey collectively and pour over the salad, sprinkle with chilli flakes and chives, serve instantly.
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