5-minute salad with hot smoked salmon and edamame

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: 5-minute salad with hot smoked salmon and edamame.

Sometimes you don't feel like cooking but you want to whip up a meal as quickly as possible. A salad is ideal for that. However, salad doesn't have a sexy image. Welmoed Benzoel is now going to change that bad image with her book the Salad Bible. Nothing boring and frumpy, salads come in all shapes and sizes. With 230 (!) different recipes to prove this, you'll find a salad for everyone in this book. If you need a quick meal, then this recipe for 5-minute salad with smoked salmon and edamame is fantastic.

INGREDIENTS
– 600 g edamame
– 4 little gem lettuces or 1 head of romaine lettuce, roughly chopped
– 4 tbsp shelled hemp seeds
– 3 tbsp pickled jalapeños, roughly chopped
– 3 tbsp rice vinegar
– 1 tbsp sesame oil
– 4 hot-smoked salmon fillets
– salt

Welmoed: ‘This is my go-to salad when I don't have time (or feel like) cooking. Because of the fattiness of the salmon, you hardly need to add any extra oil, just a bit of sesame oil for flavor.’

Here's how to make the 5-minute salad with hot-smoked salmon and edamame

• Bring plenty of water to a boil and pour it over the edamame. Let it sit for 1 minute.
• Drain and mix with the lettuce, hemp seeds, jalapeños, rice vinegar, and sesame oil.
• Mix well and season with salt.
• Place the salmon fillets on top of the salad.

Title: Salad Bible
Author: Welmoed Bezoen
Price: €34,99
Publisher: Carrera Culinair