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February 2012 Flavour of the Month
Dine
Lucy's Smoked Trout Salad made with Lucy's Zesty Mayo Dressing........
This delicious and easy-to-prepare salad is perfect for a healthy lunch or light dinner. If you're looking for something more substantial you can always add some baby new potatoes, freshly cooked rice or noodles.
Serves 2
Ingredients
Lucy's Zesty Mayo Dressing
2 filets of smoked trout (available from all the major supermarkets)
2 handfuls of rocket salad
2 handfuls of spinach leaves
10 green beans trimmed
1 tablespoon of pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds
10 slices of cucumber
6 cherry tomatoes, halved
1 ripe avocado
A few fresh chives, chopped
Method
Wash all your leaves along with the cucumber, tomatoes and green beans.
Blanch the green beans for 4 mins and then rinse in cold water to refresh.
Place the rocket, spinach leaves, slices of cucumber and tomatoes in a bowl. Toss.
Flake the smoked trout over your prepared salad.
Spoon in the avocado using using a teaspoon.
Add the blanched green beans and sprinkle with the pumpkin seeds
Add Lucy's Zesty Mayo Dressing
Finally garnish with a few freshly chopped chives and a wedge of lemon, if desired.
Lucy's Zesty Mayo dressing won a GREAT TASTE award in 2010 and is sold at stockists through-out the UK. Click here to buy online.
Wine
The Good:
Lugana Bianco ‘Terre Bianche’ 2010, Citara, Italy at £9.95 per bottle
Made by a tiny family-run estate on the shores of Lake Garda, this is a really refreshing, grapey and zesty white with a fabulous orange blossom aroma and ripe, fleshy texture. It’s a brilliant white to go with the fresh, vibrant flavours in this salad. Click here to buy online
And The Great:
Archangel Pinot Gris 2010, Central Otago, New Zealand at £16.00 per bottle
Only 200 cases were made of this and it's one of the most brilliant wines on the Vintner list! A ‘must try before you die’ wine, ripe with fresh acidity and plenty of complex tropical fruit in the mouth. Another cracker to go with this salad and great for a glass before you eat too. Click here to buy online
Sublime
Lucy's Dressings
We discovered these award-winning dressings before Christmas when Lucy came to sell them at our Christmas sale. Lucy herself is a charming girl but that wasn't really the reason we all spent most of the time loitering around her stall where she had each of her three delicious dressings to taste and a huge basket of bread. I'm ashamed to say that I have licked my plate clean every time I have used her dressings since. They really are that good and on top of that, they are more than just a dressing and can be used when roasting vegetables or as a ready made sauce for fish, chicken or pasta. Try them today, they won't disappoint.
Click here to buy online.
Our Experts:
Lucy's Dressings
Premium Home-Made Dressings
Accomplished chef Lucy is the founder of Lucy's dressings and has this month supplied us with a tasty and healthy recipe for smoked trout salad. Her dressings are all made from the finest quality ingredients to enjoy on salads and much, much more.
Tom Gilbey
thevinter.com
Tom Gilbey set up the Vintner in 2010. He’s grown up in the wine trade all his life with his family wine history dating back to 1875 but he really cut his teeth in the trade both making wine and advising and selling to London's restaurants and clubs. The Vintner is all about great wine and helping you find and choose it easily. They run a wine list of just 100 hand-selected wines, all of which sell at under £30.00 a bottle.
