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Asparagus & courgette salad with feta & sesame seeds
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 1 or 3-4 as side dish
Ingredients
- 1 tsp sesame seed
- 140g asparagus
- 50g pea
- 200g courgette
- 1 tsp sesame or olive oil
- small handful rocket leaves
- 20g feta cheese
- grated zest ½ lemon
Method
- STEP 1
Heat a small frying pan and add the sesame seeds. Cook, shaking the pan and making sure the seeds don’t burn. When they are fragrant and have turned a light teak colour, tip them onto a saucer.
- STEP 2
Steam the asparagus for 3-4 mins until almost done. Drop into a bowl of iced water to cool, then drain and wrap in a tea towel to dry really well. Cook the peas for 3 mins in the boiling water used to steam the asparagus, then drain and cool under a cold tap. Slice the courgettes on the diagonal, about 0.5cm thick.
- STEP 3
Heat a griddle pan until very hot. Brush the asparagus and courgette slices with the oil, and cook in batches until nicely striped with dark brown. Cut the asparagus into 5cm lengths.
- STEP 4
Mix the asparagus, courgettes, peas, rocket, feta and lemon zest. Grind over some black pepper and sprinkle with the sesame seeds before serving.