Recipe - Millet Watercress Salad (Wood)

1/3 cup Extra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoon Fresh lemon juice
One fourth cup Poppy seeds
2 Cloves garlic; minced
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Ginger juice; (juice
squeezed from fresh ginger)
One half teaspoon Sea salt
One fourth teaspoon Freshly ground pepper
4 cup Cooked millet; cooled
3 cup Chopped watercress
One fourth cup Diced orange bell pepper
One fourth cup Diced red bell pepper
One fourth cup Chopped chives
8 Leaves red leaf lettuce

Combine oil, lemon juice, poppy seeds, garlic, soy sauce, ginger juice,
salt and pepper in a plastic or glass container with a lid. Tightly cover
and shake to combine. Toss the millet, watercress, bell peppers, chives and
dressing together. Let stand for 5 minutes at room temperature.

Place 2 lettuce leaves on each of four luncheon plates. Mound the salad
onto the leaves and serve.

Millet is an Asian grain. Its technical name is "proso," and that's the
name you'll find on millet purchased in U.S. stores. Millet looks like
bright yellow mustard seeds, but when cooked, the seeds explode into pale
yellow puffs. When fresh, it tastes mildly sweet with a very subtle
alkaline aftertaste, says R. Wood.

Notes: "The Splendid Grain: Robust, Inspired Recipes for Grains with
Vegetables, Fish, Poultry, Meat and Fruit" by Rebecca Wood (Morrow, 1997)

Hanneman: Recipes provided by "Ann Burger" www.charleston.net/ on May 17,
1998, converted by MC_Buster.

Recipe by: "The Splendid Grain," by Rebecca Wood

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Kitpath phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on May 17,
1998