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Top 10 summer salad recipes

Give your lunch or dinner a summer makeover with fresh, crunchy, flavour-packed salads. These 10 seasonal salad recipes are full of vibrant veg and zingy herbs and spices for maximum flavour. So whether meaty, cheesy or vegan, these are so much more than a bowl of limp lettuce.

Prawn toast-inspired salad
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Prawn toast-inspired salad

This colourful salad recreates the flavours of prawn toast, with crispy sesame croutons and juicy king prawns. The dressing is made with sweet chilli sauce and lime juice for a zesty kick. Top with extra chilli, if you like it spicy.

  1. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C. In a bowl, whisk the egg white until soft peaks form, then whisk in the olive oil. Place the sesame and nigella seeds in a separate shallow bowl, then dip the bread cubes into the egg white mixture followed by the seeds. Place on a baking tray and bake in the oven for 10 mins until golden.
  2. In a bowl, mix together the dressing ingredients. Toss the prawns to coat in the dressing.
  3. Arrange the lettuce, carrot, pepper, avocado and spring onions between 2 bowls and top with the prawns and the sesame croutons. Drizzle over the remaining dressing and serve with lime wedges to squeeze over.

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  • Ingredients
  • 1 large egg white
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 2 tbsp nigella seeds
  • 1 ciabatta bread roll, cut into 1cm cubes
  • 210g pack cooked and peeled king prawns
  • 1 Little Gem lettuce, sliced
  • 1 small carrot, julienned or grated
  • 1 small red pepper, finely sliced
  • 1 avocado, finely sliced
  • 2 spring onions, finely cut on the diagonal
  • For the dressing
  • 3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce, plus extra to serve
  • 2 tbsp reduced salt soy sauce
  • 2 tsp mirin
  • 1 lime, ½ zest and juiced, ½ cut into quarters to serve
  • small knob fresh ginger, finely grated
  • small handful fresh coriander, finely chopped, plus extra to serve
  • ½ red chilli, finely chopped​

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