Let me take you back to Spain, 1983, for an “Ensalada China” (Chinese Salad)


Ingredients:
100grams prawns/shrimps
1 cucumber
1 pepper (no colour specified, photo shows green)
1 chicken breast
2 slices of sweet ham
1 large spoon of dried mushrooms
Sugar
Oil (unspecified)
Black pepper

1. Boíl the chicken breast in salted water. Once cooked, discard skin and cut in very small little pieces.
2. Soak the mushrooms in tepid water so that they expand. Cut the cucumber, the pepper, the mushrooms and the ham slices.
3. Mix all the ingredients together and season/dress them with oil, black pepper and a pinch of sugar.



From “La Cocina Y Su Arte” by Jesus Manuel Martínez