Hero Lettuce Salad w/ Eggy Mimosa and Thousand Island Dressing spiced with TABASCO®
If you’re craving a creamy, sweet and tangy sauce to add to your salad, you probably have all of the necessary ingredients to make this easy dressing.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup sour cream
1/3 cup natural yoghurt
¼ cup TABASCO® Original Red Sauce
1 teaspoon TABASCO® Original Red Sauce
2 tablespoons Kewpie mayo
Juice of half a lemon
2 tablespoons of finely chopped chives, plus extra for serving
½ teaspoon salt flakes
1 iceberg lettuce, soaked in icy water
5 hard boiled eggs
Good quality Lebanese flatbreads to serve
Method:
To make the dressing, combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix together. Taste for seasoning. You can keep the salad and dressing separate until you’re just about to serve.
Drain the lettuce, remove the outer leaves, trim the core flat and put the whole thing in a salad spinner, give it a few bursts and drain on a clean tea towel, then place in the fridge to keep chilled until guests arrive.
When ready to serve, using a sharp knife, slice the lettuce into 4 x 3cm slabs, longitudinally, keeping the lettuce’s shape as much as possible. Essentially, we are rebuilding the lettuce with the dressing in between.
Place the base of the lettuce on a round platter and smear with a quarter of the dressing then, using a microplane, grate over a puff of eggy mimosa. Continue these layers until the top is popped back into place. And finally grate the last egg over the top for the crown, sprinkling with the extra chives. Slice into wedges to serve, or let the guests tong out bits to their (lettuce) heart’s content.
Place Lebanese bread on BBQ to heat through, soften and char, serve this alongside.
Enjoy!
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TABASCO® Original Red Sauce
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