Corn, egg, gluten, milk, nightshade, nut, peanut, sesame, soya & wheat free
A lovely, light salad which you could use a a starter or as a light lunch dish. If you cannot tolerate any animal milks, you could use a soya ‘mozzarella’ or just leave the mozzarella out and add some extra avocado.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 4 handfuls fresh spinach leaves – preferably mature leaves rather than the ‘baby’ leaves which have very little flavour
- half a bulb of fresh fennel, sliced thinly
- 1 young leek, sliced thinly
- large handful alfalfa or other favourite sprouted seeds
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1 ‘bulb’ of buffalo mozzarella
- 1 heaped tbsp pine nuts
- several sprigs of fresh basil
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- juice 1–2 lemons
- 4 tbsp virgin olive oil
Method
- Tear up the spinach leave in the bottom of a wide dish.
- Sprinkle over the sliced fennel and leek and the seeds.
- Peel the avocado and slice lengthways – arrange over the leaves.
- Slice the mozzarella if you are using it and lay out in the middle of the dish.
- Sprinkle over the pine nuts then decorate with the basil leaves, both chopped and whole.
- Grate over some sea salt and lots of black pepper, then pour over the lemon juice and the oil.
- Serve at once.
Thanks go to Foods Matter for letting us reproduce this recipe
