Intern Salary: Hyde Park Salad Recipe

Eating salad at the park (with homemade croutons)

There is nothing as refreshing as having an incredible salad on a hot summers day.

Currently working near Hyde Park, escaping to the park for lunch is the great escape of the work day. I brought this salad in for a colleague, and she said (I joke you not) that it was one of the best salad's she's ever had. She's a meat eater too, so she was flabbergasted.

The salad ingredients are (per person, multiply as needed):

- 1 little gem lettuce

- 1/2 bell pepper (red or yellow preferred - who actually likes the green ones anyway?)

- 1/4 packet Feta

- 1/4 Cucumber

Extras that I like to add:

- pumpkin seeds

- goji berries

Dressing Ingredients:

- olive oil

- balsamic vinegar

- 1/2 a lemon

Method:

Since I like to bring this for lunch made the night before, I wash the salad after work and let it dry in a colander until right before bed. The last thing I do before bed is cut the salad into slices and put it into my lunch container in the fridge overnight - with no other ingredients. Can you tell I don't have a salad spinner... I have found this to be the best way to prepare salad in advance.

1) If you don't already have you're gem lettuce washed & sliced do so now, otherwise take the sliced gem lettuce from the fridge. Now also slice the feta, cucumber and bell pepper.

2) Combine all your sliced ingredients.

3) In an old jar combine ingredients for the dressing. There should be 3 parts olive oil to one part balsamic vinegar and add the juice of the half lemon (roughly as much as the balsamic vinegar). Shake. Serve over salad.

If I have the space in my bag I will often bring the dressing in separately and add right before I eat.

This picture shows the parts to the salad dressing

This salad when I made it cost about £1 per person.

The intern salary recipes are recipes that I made while being an unpaid intern. They are delicious and more importantly - cheap!

Also started making the salad at home. Perhaps I went a little salad crazy for a month.... but it's so good, easy, cheap (and healthy!)