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    Home » Recipes by Meal Type » Vegetarian Lunch Recipes

    Mar 10, 2013 · Modified: Jun 27, 2013 by Becca Heyes · This post may contain affiliate links · 8 Comments

    Marinated tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad

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    For me, eating salad is usually tinged with regret. Obviously it feels good to eat healthily, but there's always that slight resentment that everyone else in the staff room is munching on thick sandwiches or leftover pasta for lunch while I have a tub of limp lettuce. But not with this salad! I took a big tub of this to work and happily worked my through the whole lot without any jealousy of other people's lunches (apart from maybe the leftover Chinese take away...).

    Tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad recipe

    In fact, the chocolate truffle that I was offered after I'd finished genuinely didn't taste as good as this salad (what? I obviously wasn't going to turn down a truffle, don't be silly). Perhaps if I take a lunch like this with me every day, I'll finally be able to resist the big boxes of biscuits and cupcakes that are inevitably available in every school staff room.

    Tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad recipe

    This salad is the perfect thing to make a big batch of on a Sunday evening to take for lunches through the week. It took mere minutes to throw together, and tasted just as good the next day as it did when fresh. Stick it on a bed of leaves and have a piece of fruit at the side, and you've got yourself a filling meal.

    Tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad recipe

    You can adapt this recipe however you see fit, depending on what you have in your fridge. Any salad-type vegetables would fit well, and some fresh herbs would work really nicely too. I wouldn't omit the spring onion, though - despite there only being one small onion in two large portions, it adds such a huge punch of flavour to the dressing and helps the vegetables to come alive.

    Tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad recipe

    I never thought I'd enjoy a salad this much.

    Marinated tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad
     
    Recipe Type: Light lunch
    Author: Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
    Prep time: 10 mins
    Total time: 10 mins
    Serves: 2
    Ingredients
    • 200g cherry or plum tomatoes, halved
    • 100g fresh mozzarella, diced
    • 1 ripe avocado, diced
    • 1 spring onion, finely sliced
    • 4tbsp tinned sweetcorn kernels, drained
    • 3tbsp extra virgin olive oil
    • 3tbsp fresh lemon juice
    • Salt
    • Black pepper
    Instructions
    1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, and mix well. Cover, and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least half an hour. Remove from the fridge half an hour before serving.
     
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    1. Daniela @ FoodrecipesHQ says

      March 13, 2013 at 10:18 pm

      Simple and fresh, I love it!

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    2. Ashley Bee says

      March 13, 2013 at 5:11 pm

      Looove the flavors in this, and I do love avocado!

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    3. Emma @ Food, Fork and Good says

      March 11, 2013 at 3:56 pm

      Looks fab! i agree with you about lunches, I try to bring in something healthy and then everyone around me LOVES getting sarnies from over the road... sucks! However this is awesome, yum!

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    4. Rebecca Subbiah says

      March 11, 2013 at 3:38 am

      this looks so so good, will make it

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    5. LittleMonsterx14 says

      March 10, 2013 at 11:36 pm

      this looks incredible! i will be making this!

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    6. manu says

      March 10, 2013 at 9:16 pm

      Wow! Looks too delicious! Now I'm craving just this!

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    7. Jacqueline Meldrum says

      March 10, 2013 at 5:03 pm

      Looks wonderful and exactly the type salad I enjoy. Another big thumbs up Becca :)

      Reply
      • Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says

        March 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm

        Thanks Jac! :)

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