Last year in November I was forunate enough to win tickets to the Cape Dairy experience as well as a hamper filled with cheeses from Karoo Goat’s Milk Products. Amongst other cheeses, there was some Halloumi cheese included in the hamper.
Although I have never cooked with Hallouni at home before I knew that this Goat’s milk cheese has a slightly salted taste and it holds it shape when fried or grilled. I wanted to make something where the halloumi would be the center of the dish so I decided to make this easy hot tomato and halloumi salad which is an excellent light lunch. You can also serve this as a starter.
Hot tomato and Haloumi salad
By: Pink Polka Dot Food
Recipe Type: Salad
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Serves: 4
A recipe fora hot tamoto and haloumi salad
Ingredients
- 250g punnet of baby cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 clove of garlic, minced
- 30ml olive oil
- salt and freshly grounded black pepper
- 125g halloumi cheese, cubed
- 125g mangetout
- the juice of 1 lime
- micro herbs for garnishing
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180⁰C.
- Place the cherry tomatoes on a baking tray, drizzle with the olive oil. Add minced garlic and season with salt and black pepper.
- Roast for 12 minutes.
- In the mean time heat a non stick frying pan and fry the halloumi until golden brown.
- Place the mangetout and roasted tomatoes on plates, topped with the fried halloumi.
- Drizzle with the lime juice and scatter some micro-herbs on top.
- Serve with some crusty bread.
Mangetout being the green beany looking things?
I actually enjoy eating haloumi – most delicious cheese, and not too rich for my poor liver!
That does look lovely, I also haven’t used haloumi at home.
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Looks wonderful. The thought struck me how nice it would be to get a bouquet of flowers served in a salad. Are there a number of edible blooms, I wonder? I do know nasturtium leaves taste good and don’t kill one.
There are quite a large amount of edible flowers – will do a blog post about it soon!
This salad looks really good. Love the pretty pansy peeking out from the top. Can you eat it?
Yes, it is edible, but not very tasty!