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Italian salad platter

Recipe from: - YOU 5/2/1996

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Ingredients

SALAD DRESSING
160

ml

white wine vinegar
4

cloves garlic, crushed
salt and freshly ground black pepper
10

ml

origanum
10

ml

basil
10

ml

thyme
250

ml

olive oil
SALAD PLATTER INGREDIENTS
100

g

broccoli, broken into florets
100

g

fresh button mushrooms
100

g

courgettes
1

each, green and red pepper, seeded and cut into strips (optional)
250

g

smoked beef, thinly sliced
250

g

continental cervelat salami, thinly sliced
410

g

butter beans, drained
3

hard-;boiled eggs, quartered
2

anchovy fillets, cut into thin strips (optional)
3

tomatoes thinly sliced
50

g

mozzarella cheese, sliced
100

g

black olives

Method

Blend all the ingredients for the salad dressing. Pour boiling water over the broccoli and leave for a few minutes. Drain well and moisten with a little salad dressing. Marinate the mushrooms, courgettes (cut into 1 cm slices) and peppers in a little salad dressing. Meanwhile, arrange the beef and salami slices on a serving platter. Spoon the butter beans onto the plate and arrange the hard-boiled egg quarters in between. Decorate the egg quarters with the anchovy strips if desired. Arrange the tomato slices and cheese on the platter and intersperse with the olives. Spoon the marinated vegetables onto the platter. Serve with the remaining salad dressing and bread.

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