Smoked Soya Chunks Salad With Zhoug dressing
A salad with beautiful earthy notes and a great pair with this monsoon.
Ingredients
for salad
- 1 cup soya chunks
- 3-4 leaves iceberg lettuce
- ½ cup potatoes
- ½ cup french beans
- 20 gm olives
- ½ cup onions
- ½ cup cherry tomatoes
for Zhoug dressing
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- few sprigs coriander
- 1 no. green chilies
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- ½ no. lemon
Instructions
for salad
- 1 cup soya chunks Put the soya chunks into boiling water, then squeeze out all the water and put some oil in the pan along with some spices and sauté it. at last just smoke it with some charcoal.
- 3-4 leaves iceberg lettuce Put lettuce into chilled ice water for some time. Then chop into dices.
- ½ cup potatoes Cut the potatoes into 2/3 inch slices and boil it upto 60%. Then put them into a baking tray with some olive oil, garlic cloves, herbs and salt pepper, bake it for around 5 mins on 180℃.
- ½ cup french beans boil them in salted water and then chop it up into small barrels.
- Cut olives and onions into slices and just toss them into vinegar.
- ½ cup cherry tomatoes cut them in quarters.
- after all these steps are done, mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
for zhoug dressing
- Take a mortar and pestle and add coriander, chilies, cumin powder, coriander powder, salt and pepper . Grind them coarsely, at last finish it with some olive oil and juice of ½ lemon
- Finish of the salad by tossing the salad with the dressing.
Notes
Tips : To make your zhoug dressing more flavourful, you can make it a few hours prior to making your salad. But make sure to cover it with oil or else the herbs in the dressing will get oxidized.