Halloumi, fennel and kiwi fruit salad
This recipe is my rework of warm halloumi and fennel salad. If you were never sure about using fennel bulbs, this is a great recipe to try it out on. Sliced thinly, they are like sliced onions, they have the crunch of a lettuce with the faintest hint of aniseed. Keeping them ice cold makes them especially crunchy. This is another great recipe for your Ghent night. It would also make a great starter for 4 or 6 people.
Ingredients
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- 1 fennel bulb
- 1 small pot of natural yogurt
- 3 cloves Garlic, peeled and crushed
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 170 g watercress, wild rocket leaves or green salad leaves of choice.
- Zest and juice from ½ a lemon
- 1 x 250 g pack halloumi cheese, sliced to about 1 cm
- 1 Kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
Method
- Slice the fennel thinly and leave for 10 minutes in a bowl of iced water to keep crisp
- Sauté the garlic with the black pepper in the olive oil until the garlic starts to colour-remove from the heat and allow the oil to cool a little.
- Whisk garlic and oil into the yogurt
- Drain the fennel and toss with the salad leaves and lemon juice and the yogurt and place in a large salad bowl
- Heat a barbecue or griddle pan, brush the halloumi slices with oilve oil and grill for 3 to 4 minutes to get it nicely marked. It won't melt.
- Top the salad with the warm halloumi, scatter with the kiwi fruit slices
Chef's note
See also
We have a number of halloumi recipes, most are combined with fruit - a good way to offset the high salt level of this cheese.
- Beetroot falafel with toasted halloumi cheese
- Courgette and Halloumi Falafels
- Grilled sausage and halloumi salad with avocados
- Halloumi, fennel and apple salad
- Halloumi, fennel and kiwi fruit salad
- Halloumi, fennel and pink grapefruit salad
- Hugh's fried halloumi
- Melon salad with grilled halloumi cheese croutons
- Pork and strawberry salad with grilled halloumi cheese
- Skewiff beetroot and halloumi
- Squash, halloumi and chilli omelette
- Warm halloumi and fennel salad
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