Everyday green chopped salad

Chopped salads are incredibly simple to make and can offer you some chopping practice, so why not make something tasty while you’re practising your knife skills? Just make sure you use a good, sharp chef’s knife and your biggest chopping board – and watch your fingers!

serves 4

Ingredients

• • 4 spring onions
• • ½ a cucumber
• • a handful of fresh basil leaves
• • 2 small, just ripe avocados
• • 1 butter lettuce
• • 1 small tub of cress
• • optional: 50g Cheddar cheese
• • extra virgin olive oil
• • red wine vinegar
• • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• • English mustard

To make your chopped salad

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• Get yourself a big chopping board and a large sharp knife
• It’s best to start by chopping the harder, crunchier veg first, so trim and chop your spring onions and slice your cucumber
• Pick and chop your basil

To make your chopped salad

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• Bring it all into the centre of the board and continue chopping and mixing together
• Halve your avocados around the big stone
• Carefully remove the stone and peel the skin off

To make your chopped salad

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• Add the avocado flesh, lettuce leaves and cress to the board, crumble over the cheese, if using, and continue chopping
• When everything is well chopped, you’ll have a big mound of salad on the board
• Make a well in the middle and drizzle in 6 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar

To make your chopped salad

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• Add a teaspoon of English mustard and a good pinch of salt and pepper
• Mix up so everything gets well coated and serve on the board or in a bowl