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Brazil Nutty Salad

A pretty salad incorporating complementary flavours and a slight crunchiness.
This is an English dish.

Ingredients

3 or 4	FAIRTRADE bananas
1	FAIRTRADE lemon
125 gm	FAIRTRADE Brazil Nuts
50 ml	Vinaigrette
several	lettuce leaves
FAIRTRADE	Sources Fresh food Lemons Bananas Brazil Nuts

Notes

Some lettuce is used in the mixture, some is used as bedding / decoration.

Method

Preparation

Juice the lemon discarding pith and peel.
Skin the bananas and slice up thinly.
Put the bananas in a bowl and add the lemon juice. Stir gently to ensure all banana slices are coated with juice.
Wash a couple of lettuce leaves and shred for the mixture.
Make up the vinaigrette dressing.
Chop the brazil nuts.

Assembly

Put the shredded lettuce into a mixing bowl and add the vinaigrette. Toss to coat the lettuce.
Add the brazil nuts and half of the bananas, and toss to make sure everything has a coating of dressing.

To serve

Wash some more lettude and use it to decoratively line a serving dish.
Put the nuts and banana mix in the dish, and surround it with the remaining slices of banana. (Be creative).