Red Chicory & Crispy Pancetta Salad.

Chicory or endive has a mild bitter flavour and juicy crunch that, when paired with Blue Cheese, is a match made in salad heaven.

 

Ingredients (Serves 2)
2 heads of Red Chicory
4 rashers of Pancetta
25g ready made croutons
A handful of hazelnuts

 

Step-by-step
Fry or grill the pancetta until crisp then drain on kitchen paper. Break into 1.5-2 inch pieces.
Arrange red chicory on a plate and top with pancetta, hazel nuts cut in half, and croutons.
Drizzle generously with Righteous Blue Cheese & Cider Dressing.

Ravishing Radishes.

Pop them into your mouth for a juicy crunch with a sweet, peppery kick – and fantastic health benefits to boot!

 

Radishes contain two natural compounds, sulforaphane and indole-3, which in animal and lab studies have shown an anti-cancer action. It is thought that these antioxidant substances may slow or stop the growth of several different types of cancer, possibly by prompting the body to make higher levels of detoxifying enzymes. Since we generally eat radishes raw, we benefit from this nutritional benefit as these compounds are depleted by cooking. Radishes also give you a significant amount of vitamin C to boost your defences against disease.

 

These are perfect served with charcuterie or sliced and used with dips or sea salt.

Under the Moroccan Sun.

Food has always been an essential part of travel for me. Weaving through a local market and discovering new cuisines can tell you more about a country than staying in any tourist-filled hotel ever would.

 

This is a photo of ruby red pomegranates and juicy oranges sold by a street vendor in Morocco.

 

Pomegranate seeds are added to various dishes to add bursts of sweetness to rich meat tagines or starchy couscous. The seeds can also be pressed to make fresh pomegranate juice which is high in antioxidants and vitamin C.

Halloumi, Mango and Avocado Salad.

What could be better for our most colourful dressing than a vibrant mango and avocado salad? Make sure you get the ripest fruits you can find for this recipe to ensure maximum deliciousness! Remember, if you’d rather not fry the halloumi, you could always grill it instead for a slightly healthier alternative – but we just love it nice and crispy from the pan.

 

Ingredients (Serves 2)
1 mango, peeled, stoned and cubed
1 avocado, peeled, stoned and cubed
150g halloumi
90g bag mixed salad leaves
Lashings of raspberry and sweet basil dressing

 

 

Method
1. Slice your halloumi into wedges of roughly 1cm, don’t worry about neatness.
2. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick frying pan then fry the halloumi on a medium/high heat for about 1-2 minutes either side or until a beautiful golden brown colour.
3. Wash and dry your salad leaves, then assemble on a plate with the mango, avocado and halloumi (torn into smaller bites as pictured if you wish) and drizzle with plenty of raspberry and sweet basil dressing.

Grilled Chicken, Prawn and Palm Heart Salad.

This quick, protein-filled salad takes only two minutes to prepare, making it the perfect lunch on the run!

 

Ingredients (Serves 2)
60g grilled chicken pieces
60g cooked and peeled prawns
200g of Palm Hearts cut into rounds
A large bag of baby leaf salad

 

Step-by-step
In a large bowl, combine all dry salad ingredients
Drizzle over with Righteous Lemon & Mustard Seed dressing and serve

Garden Salad with Baked Goats Cheese.

One of our all-time favourite salads. Warm, comforting and an absolute breeze to make!

 

Ingredients (Serves 2)
8-10 Asparagus spears
100g Fresh peas
100g goat cheese log (cut into 1cm thick slices)
2 large handfuls of watercress

 

Step-by-step
Pre-heat the grill to its highest setting.
Boil the asparagus tips for 3-4 minutes then refresh in cold water (run under a tap or keep in a bowl of water with ice)
Place the slices of goat cheese onto a baking sheet and grill under a moderate heat for 2-3 minutes, or until the cheese has begun to melt and brown
Arrange watercress, peas & asparagus on two plates. Place warm goats cheese on top & dress with Righteous Oil-free Caper & Peppercorn Dressing.

Salmon and Cucumber Quinoa Salad.

What better accompaniment to our lemon and mustard seed dressing than perfectly cooked and flaked salmon, refreshing cucumber and super healthy quinoa? This salad is wonderful served warm, but just as special eaten from a tupperware box at your desk the following day – just make sure you bring some extra dressing along to bring it back to life.

 

Ingredients (Serves 2)
2 cooked salmon fillets
120g quinoa
1 cucumber
50g feta
2 tbsp good olive oil
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 tsp honey
juice ½ lemon
Lashings of lemon & mustard seed dressing

 

Method
1. Rinse the quinoa and cook according to pack instructions (usually 15 minutes or so). Meanwhile, peel and chop the cucumber into small chunks.
2. Once the quinoa is cooked, drain and mix in a large bowl with the oil, garlic, honey and lemon juice.
3. Add the cucumber to the bowl, give it a stir and then tip out onto a serving plate.
4. Crumble over the feta, followed by chunks of the salmon.
5. Drizzle over a good helping of Righteous Lemon & Mustard Seed Dressing.

NEW 50ml Portion Pots.

We’ve listened to your requests and are proud to introduce a product especially designed for independent food shops.

 

We are excited to announce that our dressings now come in handy portion pots!

 

Righteous 50ml pots come in shelf-ready displays that fit perfectly on small shelves side-by-side with salad bags. The handy packaging format can also fit snugly in lunch-to-go salad boxes or in an assorted display on salad bars.

 

Recommended retail price £0.75p.

Our long awaited Single Serve Pots are finally in Production.

Our long awaited portion pots are finally in production & will soon be ready to ship to farm shops and convenience stores near you!

 

We’re so excited seeing our single serve dressings in production because it’s the first of its kind in that you’ll find in the ambient salad dressing aisle!

 

We worked hard to develop this product on request from small farm shop owners. They come in shelf ready displays that fit perfectly on small store shelves and can be sold side by side with fresh salads. The great thing is they’ve got a 12 month shelf life (with no preservatives of course!) and retail for only 69p!

 

Ideal for farm shops, garden centers, delis and convenience stores. They can be ordered via Cotswold Fayre or Tree of Life UK

 

If you are interested in distributing this product, email info@loverighteous.com

Our First TV Ad.

Things have been going amazingly well for our little food business. We’ve been so grateful for such positive responses from people who have tried our products and loved them, that this has taken Righteous from strength to strength.

 

Now that our salad dressings are on supermarket shelves competing against the big brands, we see that the real work had begun.

 

Our challenge now is to find a way to tell more people about Righteous & our fantastic line of salad dressings, and we thought that the best way to do this is through a TV ad. But as you know, TV advertising can be quite expensive. So while we have some funds, we know this will be far smaller than any advertising budget of our big multinational competitors. We knew that whatever campaign we create really needs to leave its mark (because we will not be able to air it very often or for very long).

 

We needed our ad to:
– be memorable: for it to catch peoples’ attention & spark interest.
– show Righteous to be not just another health food brand.
– shows that salads can actually be exciting and enticing with the right accompaniment.

 

Through the passion – and the hard work of a group of friends that helped us put the ad together – we truly believe that we’ve come up with something that we can be proud of. It’s fun and sexy and we hope it will whet your appetite for salads and for Righteous!