Green salad with herby kefir dressing
Prep time: 20 minsTotal time: 
Green salad with herby kefir dressing
Probiotic-rich kefir brings a delicious tang to a herb-packed dressing in this serve-with-anything salad. Add leftover shredded roast chicken to turn it into a main meal for four
Prep time: 20 minsTotal time: 
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Ingredients
- 150ml plain kefir drink (we used Biotiful)
- zest of ½ lemon, plus 1 tbsp juice
- 1 x 30g pack basil, leaves picked
- 1 x 30g pack parsley, leaves picked
- 2 ripe avocados
- 2 Sweet Gem lettuces
- 1 x 60g bag lambs lettuce
- ½ cucumber, halved lengthways and sliced
- 4 spring onions, sliced
Step by step
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Put the kefir drink, lemon zest and juice, all the basil leaves and half the parsley leaves into a high-speed blender. Scoop the flesh from half an avocado and add this to the blender. Season with salt and blitz to a smooth, green dressing.
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Trim the Sweet Gem lettuces and roughly chop. Add to a large serving bowl with the lambs lettuce, then pour over most of the dressing and toss well to coat.
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Peel and remove the stones from the remaining 1½ avocados and cut the flesh into bite-size chunks. Add to the salad bowl with the remaining parsley leaves, sliced cucumber and spring onions. Gently toss again to combine, ensuring everything is well coated in the dressing, then spoon over the remaining dressing and serve immediately.
