Recipe: Nadia Lim’s Turkish Salad with Watermelon
Add pan-fried haloumi to make this fresh summer salad a meal.
Recipe: Nadia Lim Photo: Vanessa and Michael Lewis
Recipe republished from Vegful by Nadia Lim
This is a wonderful dish for the summer table. To turn this salad into a meal of its own, top with pan- fried haloumi and avocado. Sumac is a quintessential ingredient in Turkish cuisine, and adds this amazing tartness and flavour to dishes, so I recommend finding it as you’ll end up using it lots in other dishes too. However, if you can’t get your hands on some, use a little finely grated lemon zest instead.
GF | DF | Vegan
Serves 4
Prep time: 15 minutes
INGREDIENTS
½ telegraph cucumber
1 punnet cherry tomatoes, cut in half
3 cups watermelon cubes (about ¼ large watermelon)
½ red onion, finely diced seeds from 1 pomegranate
1⁄3 cup finely chopped walnuts
½ cup torn mint leaves
½ cup roughly chopped flat-leaf parsley
2–3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 ½ teaspoons sumac
juice of 1 lemon
METHOD
Cut cucumber in half lengthways and scrape out seeds using a teaspoon. Dice deseeded cucumber.
In a large bowl, toss cucumber with all remaining ingredients and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
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