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I meant to post a completely different recipe today, but when I prepared this salad for yesterday’s lunch, I liked so much its spring look, colours and character, I decided to write about it instead.\u00a0\u201cSalade compos\u00e9e\u201d, or mixed salad, is a dish I discovered in cheap small French restaurants, where it’s usually served for lunch. It is served in big bowls filled with green salad leaves, other raw vegetables and some proteins (usually a fried egg and for example a slice of ham). As soon as the weather starts warming, this kind of salad is one of my favourite quick lunch ideas.\u00a0Last September I wrote about the salad I prepare most often (with tomatoes and smoked pork loin,\u00a0click here to see the recipe<\/a>), but the ingredients change quite depending on the season and on what I have in the fridge. Only the “bed” of\u00a0green leaves and the fried egg are the obligatory items. (When you break the yolk and taste a salad leaf coated in the stupendous mixture of vinaigrette and egg yolk, you will understand why I never skip the egg).<\/p>\n Even though I made it with what I found in the fridge, this salad was mainly composed of seasonal produce: cucumber, radishes, avocado, a fabulous, spring, crisp, reddish lettuce called “rougette” and, last but not least, several rocket leaves straight from my balcony. Moreover, the egg, as well as the cooked ham come from happy, free-range animals (well, the pig was happy only until a certain point…). In short, it might look like an ordinary salad, but for me it represents the perfect high-quality, healthy spring meal. Served with several slices of good baguette, it’s a light, but complete and definitely nourishing dish. If only I could control my food cravings and have such a wise dish daily…<\/p>\n Preparation: 15 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n Ingredients (serves one):<\/em><\/p>\n green salad leaves (5 big or ten smaller)<\/em><\/p>\n 5 cm (2 inch) cucumber piece\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 7 big radishes<\/em><\/p>\n 1\/2 avocado<\/em><\/p>\n 1 slice of cooked ham<\/em><\/p>\n 1 egg (or two if you feel very hungry!)<\/em><\/p>\n Vinaigrette with mustard:<\/em><\/p>\n 1 tablespoon olive oil<\/em><\/p>\n 1 heaped teaspoon mustard<\/em><\/p>\n 3 tablespoons vinegar of your choice\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n salt and pepper<\/em><\/p>\n Take a big bowl (for example with 20 cm (8 inch) diameter).<\/p>\n Tear the bigger salad leaves, cut the cucumber into matchstick or other small pieces, slice the radishes.<\/p>\n Cut the avocado into pieces.<\/p>\n Cut the ham or tear it (this is what I prefer to do if the slices are thin).<\/p>\n Arrange the salad, the cucumber, the avocado and the ham in the bowl.<\/p>\n Prepare the salad dressing and pour it over the salad.<\/p>\n Heat a pan and fry an egg.<\/p>\n Put the egg on the top of the salad, sprinkle some salt and pepper over it and serve.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I meant to post a completely different recipe today, but when I prepared this salad for yesterday’s lunch, I liked so much its spring look,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,10,184,125,183,22],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10046,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}