Cherry tomatoes and cucumber over a bed of radicchio, shallot and peppers with herbs and toasted pinenuts.
A great dish served dolloped with pesto or drizzled with balsamic dressing, served alongside a cheeseboard, simple protein or as part of a summer spread.
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Tomato, Cucumber & Radicchio Salad with Toasted Pinenuts
HOW TO TOAST PINENUTS
HEAT a frying pan until medium and add pinenuts, toast, stirring every 20secs until golden. Watch carefully; they will burn quickly. Remove from pan onto a plate to cool.
CUT radicchio in half, then quarters and finely slice. Scatter over the base of a serving platter.
THINLY slice shallot | onion + yellow pepper + cucumber + basil and scatter over radicchio.
CUT cherry tomatoes in half and scatter over the platter.
SPRINKLE with vinegar and salt | dulse. SCATTER with toasted pinenuts.
Serving Ideas
with Basil Pesto or Honey Mustard Dressing
add hard-boiled eggs or smoked fish.
with Grilled Zucchini & Cumin Scented Blackbean Salad
with Green Bean & Pesto Pasta Salad
with Grilled Mushrooms or a simple protein
something creamy that is not mayo; try this whipped preserved lemon cucumber tahini sauce.
SWAP & ADD vegetables like carrots, radishes, pattypan squash, snap peas, kohlrabi, spring onions.
SWAP BASIL use chives, parsley, opal basil, mint, nasturtium flowers, marjoram or oregano.
ADD nuts, seeds, olives, feta cheese, baby mozzarella sliced in half.
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