Tasty salad

Ingredients:
lettuce - 10 big leafs
rocket - 10 leafs
mozzarella - 1
cherry tomatoes - 6
pumpkin seeds - 1 tbsp
apple - 1/2
salt
olive oil
vinegar

Wash the lettuce, the rocket and the tomatoes carefully, then cut them in small pieces and put them in a jar. Cut the mozzarella and the apple. Add them to the lettuce and the sunflower seeds. Put salt, olive oil and vinegar according to your taste.
You can serve with some roasted wholewheat bread and it's a perfect dinner for this season, waiting for the summer to show up.

Rocket soup with parmesan cheese

I found this really nice recipe in a book I have bought a few years ago in Ljubljana: Juhe (Kuhinja izbranih okusov). I have tried it (and modified the recipe just a bit, as usually) and it was very nice.


Ingredients:
potato (1 big)
rocket (250 gr)
onion (1 small)
garlic (1 piece)
olive oil (1 spoon)
water (0,5 l)
knorr cube
cream ( 0,2 l)
salt
pepper
parmesan cheese (40 gr)


Cook the potato for about 25 minutes, then drain the water, peel the potato and cut it in small cubes. Clean the rocket and leave some leafs on the side for decoration. Cut the rest of the rocket in small pieces. Peel the onion and garlic and chop in small pieces. Fry them in a pan with a spoon of olive oil. Just before it becomes brown, add the water and the knorr cube, leave it on low heat until the cube melts. Add the cream and mix. Then add the potato cubes and the chopped rocket. Pass the soup through the strainer. Add salt and pepper. Put the soup in a plate, add some rocket leafs on the top and some grated parmesan cheese (it doesn't have to be really thin) and serve.

Risotto with rocket

This time I did risotto once again with one of my favourite plants: rocket (in italian rucola). And once again I added some spices, it can be done without any spices.

Ingredients (4 people):
rice (4 cups)
onion
rocket
knorr cube
parmesan cheese
spices (sweet chilli powder, chilli powder, curry, masala)

Chop the onion and fry it. Add the spices and mix. Add the rice and mix again. Then add water and a knorr cube. From time to time continue to mix and add water when needed. When the rice is done add some parmesan cheese and mix. Then add the rocket leaves and mix. Leave some parmesan and a few leaves to garnish. Put the rice on the plate, some parmesan on the top, a few rocket leaves on one side and serve.