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Salad Nicoise & Pita Pocket Salad

Liven Your Table With Taste And Your Life With Ease

(NAPSI)-With warmer days comes fresh air, easy breezes and a desire for zestful dishes that reflect the change in seasons. Winter's hot ovens, heavy sauces and lengthy meal prep thankfully are replaced with tasty, lighter dishes that restore zip to the palate and ease in preparation.

Two new recipes-Salad Nicoise and Pita Pocket Salad Sandwich-offer delightfully refreshing dishes that reflect today's popular Mediterranean cuisine. And like that region known for celebrating the relaxed basics of life, these recipes are easy to make, requiring only simple ingredients and a minimum of preparation time.

With a touch of sophistication, each recipe offers a slightly exotic flavor to enliven an otherwise plain meal. And if you have children at the table, they're a fun and delicious way to get them to eat-and enjoy-vegetables.

Developed by Birds Eye, a brand known and trusted by today's consumers, the recipes embrace the convenience of frozen vegetables-a wonderful time-saver for anyone looking for a quick and healthy meal. Labeled "healthy" by the Food & Drug Administration in 1998, frozen vegetables also ensure that the highest levels of nutrition and flavor are "locked-in" for whomever you serve.

Easily prepared in advance, the recipes can serve as a light meal as well as a side dish, and fit all occasions and settings from the dining table to a summer picnic basket to a gathering of friends on the patio. And when served, these eye-appealing dishes deliver simple elegance in their presentation.

Salad Nicoise and Pita Pocket Salad Sandwich-healthy, light-tasting fare that is easy, quick and convenient to prepare. Which will leave you with more time to enjoy the good things in life.

Salad Nicoise
(Server 4)

(Prep time 5 mins., cooking time 10 mins.)

1 box (9 oz. box) Birds Eye frozen Cut Green beans
1 head Boston or green leaf lettuce
1 can (16 oz. can) whole potatoes, drained
1 can (6 1/8 oz. can) tuna packed in water, drained
2 tomatoes cut into wedges
1/3 cup Greek or black olives, whole
1/3 cup Caesar salad dressing

  1. Cook green beans according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cold water to cool; drain well.
  2. Arrange lettuce leaves on serving platter. Arrange beans, potatoes, tuna, tomatoes and olives in separate piles on lettuce.
  3. Drizzle dressing over salad.

Pita Pocket Salad Sandwich
(Serves 4)

Prep time: 4 to 5 mins., cooking time: 10-15 mins.)

1 box (10 oz.) Birds Eye frozen Green Peas
4 pita bread rounds
8 oz. chicken or turkey, cooked and cubed
4 oz. shredded Colby or Swiss cheese
2 sweet pickles, thinly sliced
1/4 cup mayonnaise
4 large lettuce leaves

  1. In medium saucepan, cook peas according to package directions; drain and refrigerate until chilled.
  2. Cut pita bread rounds in half and carefully open.
  3. Combine chicken or turkey, peas, cheese, pickles and mayonnaise.
  4. Place 1 lettuce leaf into each pita pocket. Stuff each pocket with chicken mixture, dividing evenly. Makes 4 servings.

For more great-tasting recipes and easy entertaining ideas, visit http://www.birdseye.com.

 

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