During my pregnancies I became very aware of what I called my Food DNA. It may have been mid-winter with snow falling around our home in the UK, but I was craving mangoes, litchis, kiwi fruit: seasonally appropriate for my Southern Hemisphere DNA. I find myself here again – not pregnant, thankfully – but wrapped and bundled in scarves and gloves, but craving salads and light suppers. 
I came across this salmon & egg salad recipe, designed by Sunrise’s award winning chefs, among a bunch of others regularly served in their care homes and it really appealed to me, but I’ve made a few minor changes to adapt it for the Thermomix®. You can find the original recipe here, and you certainly don’t need any fancy kitchen machinery to make it. 
I’ll be in Australia for a while next month. I’m looking forward to a lot more salads and fresh, sun-kissed fruit – and will certainly be revisiting this one again.
- 4 eggs (hard boiled)
- Small bunch of parsley
- Pinch of salt
- Pinch of ground black pepper
- 4 table spoons olive oil
- ¼ tsp French mustard
- 2 table spoons white wine vinegar
- 1 tomato – quartered
- 1 red pepper – seeded and halved
- ½ red onion – peeled and halved
- ¼ cucumber – cut in four
- 50g watercress
- 160g smoked salmon pieces
- ½ lemon
- In the Thermomix® bowl, add 1 litre warm water and add the whole eggs in the internat steamer. Boil for 14 minutes/speed 2/ Varoma temp.
- When it's done, remove the basket and empty out the water.
- In the bowl, add parsley , salt, pepper, olive oil, mustard, vinegar and stir for 10 seconds on speed 5.
- Add the tomato, red pepper, onion and cucumber and mix speed 4 for 10 - 15 seconds. Keep an eye on it to see the size. You don't want to end up with a smoothie.
- Peel the eggs and halve.
- Pour the salsa in a mixing bowl, a glass bowl is nice. Put the watercress on top, then add the strips of smoked salmon.
- Dot the eggs around the top, and drizzle the lemon juice over the top.
- When you're ready to serve, mix the ingredients well, and make sure every plate gets a bit of everything.