Strawberry And Summer Leaf Salad With Vanilla Salt

Strawberry And Summer Leaf Salad With Vanilla Salt.

Hello friends, fancy a nice tasty salad?

A salad with strawberries in?

Strawberry And Summer Leaf Salad With Vanilla Salt :

This is a real taste sensation, fresh fruity and refreshing British strawberries, thirst quenching watermelon and cherry tomatoes, summery pea shoots and baby leaves tossed with crumbled feta shaved parmesan, toasted pine nuts then finished with sea salt flakes mixed with vanilla seeds and a white balsamic dressing for an incredible finale.

How To Make A Strawberry And Summer Leaf Salad With Vanilla Salt:

Serves 4

Ingredients:

350g/12oz strawberries, hulled, halved or quartered if large

400g/14oz watermelon, peeled, deseeded, cut into 1cm/1/2inch dice

150g/51/2oz cherry tomatoes, quartered

100g/31/2oz mixed baby salad leaves to include pea shoots and lambs lettuce

Small handful Thai basil/ordinary basil, leaves stripped from stems

16 mint leaves

Finely grated zest of 1 lime

100g/31/2oz feta cheese, drained, crumbled into small pieces

40g/11/2oz piece parmesan, cut into shavings with a vegetable peeler

2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts

1 teaspoon sea salt flakes

1 vanilla pod, slit lengthways, seeds scraped from pod

Dressing:

2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Little freshly ground black pepper

Strawberry And Summer Leaf Salad With Vanilla Salt Method:

1.) Add the strawberries, diced watermelon and tomatoes to a bowl.

2.)Add the salad leaves, tearing any larger pieces into bite size, basil and mint leaves.

3.) Sprinkle over the lime zest, feta, parmesan and pine nuts.

4.) Mix the salt flakes with the vanilla in a small bowl.

5.) Whisk the balsamic vinegar and oil with a little pepper together for the dressing then add vanilla salt and dressing to the salad to taste and toss together.

Serve immediately.

Cook’s Tip:

Vanilla salt also tastes great sprinkled over grilled seabass fillets, steak or for the more adventurous types add a little sprinkle of this to vanilla ice cream.

Don’t throw away the scraped vanilla pod, add it to a jam jar and top up the jar with caster sugar, screw on the lid and leave for a week for the vanilla to flavour the sugar then sprinkle over hulled strawberries, add to homemade strawberry jelly, meringue or shortbread.

Strawberry And Summer Leaf Salad With Vanilla Salt. About this post -This is a guest post. No payment was received. Recipe and photo credit by Seasonal Berries.

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