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Salad with scallops and smoked sausage

Salad with Croutons and Smoked Sausage

A tasty Caesar-style salad, adapted and simplified. It's really a different salad, but it has that Caesar feel — with sausage instead of chicken and store-bought croutons that cut the prep time way down. It works for a weeknight meal or a holiday dinner with the family.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Seasoned croutons (2 small bags or 1 large)

100

Smoked sausage

150

Napa cabbage

200

Eggs

Canned corn (1 can)

300

Garlic

Hard cheese (optional)

100

Mayonnaise

Salt

Lettuce leaves (for serving)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 32 % 10 g

Fats 32 % 10 g

Carbohydrates 35 % 11 g

207 kcal

GI: 8 / 42 / 50

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

How do you make this croutons-and-smoked-sausage salad? You'll need smoked or semi-smoked sausage; seasoned croutons in any flavor (bacon or ham-and-cheese pair best with the rest); canned corn; napa cabbage; eggs; garlic; cheese; and lettuce leaves for serving. Everything but the eggs is ready to go, so the salad comes together fast.
Step 2:

Peel the casing off the smoked sausage and cut it into slices, then into strips.
Step 3:

Put the sausage strips into a deep salad bowl.
Step 4:

Finely chop the napa cabbage. You can swap it for lettuce.
Step 5:

Add the chopped napa cabbage to the bowl with the sausage.
Step 6:

Hard-boil the eggs. Cut them into medium dice and add them to the bowl with the rest.
Step 7:

Drain the canned sweet corn and add it to the bowl.
Step 8:

Add the seasoned croutons (I used ham-and-cheese flavor). They come in all sorts of flavors, so you can easily change the salad's character just by using a different one. Don't forget to set aside some croutons for garnishing. Press in two small cloves of garlic.
Step 9:

Dress the salad with mayonnaise and toss well. Add the mayonnaise right before serving — otherwise the croutons soften over time and lose their crunch.
Step 10:

Serve it Caesar-style: lay the lettuce leaves on a platter and mound the salad on top.
Step 11:

Grate any hard cheese on the coarse holes of a grater (or shave it into thin, translucent slices with a vegetable peeler). If you don't need a fancy presentation, you can skip the cheese, but I think it makes the salad both prettier and tastier.
Step 12:

Scatter the cheese over the salad and arrange the reserved croutons on top.

Enjoy!
It's worth making your own mayonnaise — it tastes better and is better for you. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt as the dressing instead of, or mixed with, the mayonnaise in any ratio you like, which lightens up the dish.
How do you choose good canned corn? Always check the use-by date. If it's a glass jar, look the kernels over: they should be uniform in size and color, whole, and unblemished. The ingredient list shouldn't include dyes, preservatives, or flavor enhancers.