My friend Felicity made this salad one time when I was visiting her station and I have not looked back since she hand wrote the recipe for me. It is now stuck in my old faithful pink recipe book and is a favourite amongst many of my friends.
Aileen, who was our fabulous cook for about 6 years, just asked me for this recipe so I thought the right thing to do would be to spread the love and share it with all of you. I can’t believe I have not put this recipe on the blog until now, thanks for the kick in the bum Aileen!!!
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Felicity’s Roast Pumpkin, Cashew & Philly Salad
Ingredients
1/2 cup olive oil
2 cloves crushed garlic
500g pumpkin cut into cubes
250g philly cut into cubes
100g bacon chopped and fried
3/4 cup toasted cashews
100g blanched fresh beans
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
Instructions
Combine oil, garlic and pumpkin. Bake at 180 degrees C for 30 minutes (or until cooked but not squishy), turn half way through.
Add philly and bake for 10 mins. Cool. Reserve oil.
Arrange pumpkin & philly on a platter. Top with bacon, toasted cashews & beans.
Prior to serving whisk the reserved oil and balsamic, drizzle over salad.
This is such an easy salad to whip up, you could even make the day before and just drizzle the dressing over before serving.
What is your favourite Salad and would you like to share the recipe?
I make a layered salad which is excellent when you have a few people for lunch.
You can be fancy and put it in a deep glass bowl however I make it in a deep Tupperware dish with a lid.
1. Lge bag of mixed salad lettuce
2. Place in the bottom of your dish
3. Add a 1 kg bag of frozen peas & corn mixture.
4. Add 1/2 kg grated carrot on top of this.
5. Add 1 fox. Boiled cooled mashed eggs.
6. Making sure your layers cover each preceding layer
7. 1 kg block of grated tasty cheese.
8. Mix 1 lge tub of plain yoghurt, 1 lge jar of mayonnaise & juice of 1 Lemmon.
You need your mixture not to be to stiff if so add some cream or milk.
9. Spread over your layered mixture.
10. Decorate with a fine chopped green, red & yellow capsicums, 3/4 kg. Fried off bacon pieces and cherry tomatoes if you like tomatoes.
11. You will need to lge spoons to dish the salad to obtain all the layers.
Enjoy
This is great the next day as well if any left.
Merry Christmas to your family from my family.
Hi Sue, thanks so much for the recipe. Really appreciate it. Will have to give it a go.
I am learning to love salad but this is one that I could fall head over heels for! You had me at bacon and then again at Philly!
Oh Sammy, I think you will love it. You know what, I just had a thought – next time I make it I might do it with sweet potato. Yum. Have you tried my Hot Steak & Crunchy Potato Salad? It is the business. Haven’t had a dissatisfied customer yet.