GARDEN LOVE

It's a beautiful thing when you are lucky enough to have your own home-grown vegetables. Not only are they free, but they taste so much better when they are grown with love.

Not necessarily an international dish, but this quick salad made up of 70% of produce from the backyard was too good not to share. Delicious, guilt free dinner for two.

a handful of garden love salad

  1/3 cooked sweet potato, sliced thinly and sauteed until golden

  1 handful rocket, torn

  1 handful silverbeet, shredded

  1 handful endive, torn

  1 handful red lettuce, torn

  1 handful baby spinach

  1/2 handful basil, torn

  1 handful french beans, blanched

  1/2 handful mint leaves

  1/2 handful italian parsley

  1 tomato, chopped

  1 tin lentils, drained and rinsed

  1/2 red capsicum, finely diced

  1 small lebanese cucumber, sliced

  1 tin baby beetroot, rinsed and halved

  1/2 handful spring onion, sliced

  1/4 free-range organic mediterranean chicken, shredded

Toss all ingredients in a large bowl and serve with a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar (or a squeeze of lemon). How easy is this!