Christmas Menu/ Salads/ Sides

Asparagus, Bacon & Roast Tomato Salad

This is a super delicious summer salad of asparagus, tomato and feta, drizzled with an easy balsamic vinaigrette.

It’s perfect on its own with crusty bread as a light lunch, or as side dish for any meal.

Asparagus, Bacon & Roast Tomato Salad

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Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 bunches asparagus
  • 1 punnet grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 4 rashes bacon, thinly sliced
  • 1 red onion, peeled, sliced into thin wedges
  • handful thyme sprigs
  • 50-100g Greek fetta
  • handful toasted pinenuts
  • 1 punnet micro herbs for serving
  • Sea salt & cracked pepper
  • Vinaigrette
  • 6 tb balsamic vinegar
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 2 tsp dijon mustard
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 1 clove garlic , minced
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200C

1

Place the tomatoes and onion wedges on a baking paper lined oven tray, season with salt & pepper

2

Drizzle with olive oil, give the tray a shake to coat everything with the oil

3

Roast for 15-20 minutes

4

Remove from the oven & cool slightly

For the salad

5

Slice the woody ends off the asparagus

6

Bring a pot of salted water to the boil, drop in the asparagus and cook for 2 minutes

7

Drain, and plunge into cold water with some ice, to stop the cooking process

8

When cool, drain again

9

Cook the bacon in a small fry pan until crispy, drain on paper towel

For the vinaigrette

10

Place all the ingredients into a jar & shake well

To serve

11

Place the asparagus on a serving platter. Scatter over the bacon, tomatoes, onion & thyme

12

Crumble over the fetta & pine nuts

13

Drizzle with the vinaigrette and scatter over the micro herbs

Salad ingredients
Roast tomatoes & onions

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