Lettuce Tower

Lettuce Tower

poniedziałek, 17 lutego 2014

Lettuce Tower

Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 400 g imitation crabmeat
• 250 g chicken bouillon
• 120 g buckwheat groats (cous cous)
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 avocado
• 1 lemon, juice of
• 1 sweet red pepper
• 2 tablespoons light mayonnaise
• 1 small onion
• salad leaves
• 50 g dry white wine
• lemon
• 1 tablespoon wine vinegar
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• salt
• pepper

Directions

• 1 Boil the bouillon.
• 2 Pour over the cous cous and mix.
• 3 Cover and cook it 1-2 minutes or place in the microwave covered for 1 minute at maximum power.
• 4 Keep covered for 5 minutes, then remove cover, mix and let cool.
• 5 Remove seeds from the cucumbers and the pepper and julienne.
• 6 Reserve 1/4 of the cucumber and pepper; set to the side.
• 7 Mix the remaining cucumber and pepper with the cous cous.
• 8 Mix the oil and wine vinegar together; add to cous cous.
• 9 Mince the onion and brown until golden in 1 table spoon of vegetable oil.
• 10 Cool.
• 11 Peel and pit avocado; cut into thin slices and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
• 12 Shred the crab meat, the reserved cucumber/pepper mixture, add the browned onion, mayonnaise, and pepper to taste; set to the side.
• 13 I added salt.
• 14 Tear lettuce into small pieces by hand and dress with wine vinegar and oil.
• 15 To assemble the salad, cut both ends out of a can.
• 16 Begin assembling of salad tower.
• 17 Place bottomless can on salad plate and layer bottom layer is cous cous, followed by avocado, and crab mix.
• 18 Press each layer firmly with a spoon.
• 19 Carefully remove the can.
• 20 Dress each plate with some larger, prettier lettuce leaves.
• 21 Serve.