LIGHT SAUSAGE SALAD

Salad with... sausages! You may don't believe it but it is a light, low-cal and low-fat recipe cause it uses chicken or turkey sausages.

Ingredients

4 servings

1/2 cup canned corn

2 turkey or chicken sausages 

1 large Cretan rusk

2 carrots

1 head lettuce

1 tbsp mustard

1 tbsp olive oil

3 tbsps strained Greek yogurt

1/2 cup various pickles

Salt

Steps

Boil the sausages according to package instructions. Drain and let them cool.

Separate the lettuce into leaves, wash it. Let them drain and chop them into bite size.

Drain the corn and the pickles.

Peel the carrots and grate them.

Break the Cretan rusk.

Combine the yogurt with the olive oil and the mustard.

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and toss gently. Let the sausages reach room temperature before you mix them with lettuce otherwise the lettuce will go soggy. Salt just before serving.

TASTEFUL SIMPLICITY

Others may snubbed the potato salad and feel that is too simple food to be served at a table with friends, but sometimes simple recipes pleasantly surprised!

Ingredients

2 large potatoes
1/2 cup cream cheese - (f.e. katiki or touloumisio)
Some grated garlic
2 spring onions
Some sprigs of fresh oregano
Salt
4 tablespoons olive oil

Process

Peel the potatoes and cut them into large pieces.

Place the potatoes in a large saucepan with salted water. The water should cover the potatoes. Boil them until tender. Drain them and put them in a bowl.

Wash, peel and  finely chop the spring onions.
Heat the olive oil in a pan and stir-fry the spring onions for about 2 minutes. Add the spring onions and the cream cheese in the bowl while the potatoes are still hot. Chop finely the oregano leaves and add them to the mixture. Salt and grate some garlic. You can enjoy this potato salad hot or cold, just put them in the refrigerator for about an hour before you serve it.

Toss gently. Garnish your salad with a sprig of fresh oregano before serving!

TODAY I DON'T FEEL LIKE DOING ALMOST ANYTHING

Today I don't feel like doing anything, I just wanna lay in my bed; as Bruno Mars' song goes. I think that everybody feels the same sometimes but then you get hungry and you have to change the lyrics a little bit to " Today I don't feel like doing almost anything". When this day comes, cook the following omelet. It is healthy, low-cal, delicious and of course easy-to do! 

Ingredients

2 servings

3 eggs

50 grams broccoli florets

60 grams feta cheese

1 soring onion

4 black olives

1 tomato

Olive oil

4 tbsps. milk

Salt

Pepper

Oregano

Instructions

Put broccoli in boiling water for 2-3 minutes to soften.

Cut the broccoli, the spring onion, the tomato and the feta in small pieces.

Halve the olives and remove the stones. There is an old trick to halve the olives quickly. Put them on a cutting board and press only one each time with a wooden spoon. 

Break the eggs and beat them gently in a bowl. Add milk, salt, pepper, oregano and continue to beat until they combine together. Preheat the olive oil at medium heat in a round pan. Add the omelet to the centre of the pan. Tilt the pan so that the eggs spread out evenly over the bottom. When the edges begin to turn yellow and thicken flip your omelet using a spatula. Leave the other to be cooked.Slide the omelet onto a plate and sprinkle the vegetables, the olives and the feta over the omelet. Salt and pepper and  good appetite!