Grilled Courgette Salad with Chilli, Feta and Pine Nuts
Serves: 4
Ready in: 15 to 30 mins
Eco FriendlyGluten FreeQuick Make
Ingredients:
4 courgettes2 baby gems, cut into ribbons
1-2 red chillies, de-seeded and finely chopped
60g pine nuts
60g currants
a large handful mint leaves, roughly chopped
140g feta cheese
80ml extra virgin olive oil
juice of half a lemon
method:
- Cut the courgettes into long thin slices, down their length. Drizzle them with olive oil, salt and pepper and cook on the barbecue or under a hot grill on both sides until slightly blackened and cooked through.
- Meanwhile heat a little olive oil in a frying pan and add the currants and pine nuts. Fry until the currants have puffed up and the pine nuts are a pale golden colour. Put the lettuce, mint and courgette strips on a plate, scatter with the pine nuts, chilli and raisins, crumble over the feta and season with a good pinch of pepper. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and the lemon juice.
