Grilled Cheese Salad

Cyprus Grilled Cheese Salad

Incredibly delicious Cypriot salad of fried Halloumi cheese, pine nuts and spicy dressing. Gluten-free vegetarian salad will be a great light dinner or lunch for you. As part of the spicy salad dressing, you will find Didjon mustard, olive oil, garlic and citric acid. The salad dressing is a little sour and goes well with grilled Halloumi cheese. The set of herbs is simply incredible: spinach, arugula with a slight bitterness and refreshing mint.

Recipe type: Salads

Recipe type: Cypriot

Yield: 4-6

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 15 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Garlic — 3-4 cloves

Extra virgin olive oil — 4 tablespoons

Didjon mustard — 2 teaspoons

Salt — 1 teaspoon

Lemon juice — 2 tablespoons

Kalamata olives (pitted) — 150 grams

Pine nuts (peeled) — 50 grams

Red onion — 1 medium onion

Libyan cucumber — 1 piece

Spinach — 100 grams

Arugula — 100 grams

Mint — 50 grams

Halloumi cheese — 250 grams

Directions:

1. Peel and finely chop the garlic.

2. Lightly fry pine nuts in a dry frying pan for 3-4 minutes.

3. Wash the red onion and cut into half rings.

4. Wash spinach, arugula and mint leaves.

5. Cut the cucumber into round slices.

6. Cut the Kalamata olives in half.

7. Salad dressing: Mix garlic, olive oil, Didjon mustard, salt, lemon juice. Mix thoroughly until smooth.

8. Cut Halloumi cheese into slices and grill until golden brown.

9. Combine all the ingredients on a plate and pour over the dressing.

Serving: Serve salad with hot cheese. Combined with wine.

Bon Appetit!