Jono & Jules do food & wine

We’ve been eyeing up lots of recipes in Ottolenghi Simple and so far have only made a green salad. As green salads go however it was  pretty good with a great fresh flavour from the herbs and cucumber and an unusual dressing. We served this with some spiced baked salmon but it would be great with loads of dishes.

Cucumber & lamb’s lettuce salad – serves 4

• 5 baby cucumbers (or 1½ regular cucumbers with the seeds removed)
• 30g lamb’s lettuce
• 10g picked mint leaves
• 10g picked coriander leaves
• 1 tsp nigella seeds

FOR THE DRESSING

• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 small garlic clove, crushed
• 2cm piece of ginger, finely grated
• 20g plain yoghurt
• third tsp flaked sea salt

Make the salad dressing by whisking all of the ingredients together in a small bowl.

Cut the cucumbers into quarters, lengthways. Cut each quarter diagonally into ½ cm slices and put into a large bowl with the lettuce, mint and coriander. Gently mix in the dressing and spread into over a large shallow bowl. Sprinkle with the nigella seeds and serve.

(Original recipe from Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ebury Press, 2018.)