Sunday, 19 August 2012

Broad bean and feta salad

A recipe from one of my best friends Naomi. The last bits of this salad were fought over at the post Open Gardens bbq in July! You can halve quantities if you want but would only recommend doing so for less than 4 people. But that is from view point of someone who would eat this salad on its own every day:)

Put 2 bags of frozen broad beans into a large bowl and cover with boiling water. Leave for one minute and drain. Remove outer skin from each of the beans suggest you delegate this or have a good film to watch whilst doing this. Rinse shelled beans in cold water.

Add large handful of chopped fresh mint

Optionally - add one finely chopped small red onion

Mix in a block of feta cheese that has been chopped into small cubes

Mix together 2tbsp olive oil, 2tbsp white wine vinegar, juice of one lemon and freshly ground pepper. Add to the other ingredients.

Chill and serve