Mediterranean salad with hummus dressing
Liven up your usual salad with roasted courgette, artichokes, chickpeas and feta in a creamy hummus dressing
Spicy cucumber & watermelon salad
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 2
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- 100g dried flat rice noodles
- 1 limejuiced
- 1 shallotfinely chopped
- 1 small red chillideseeded if you prefer less heat and finely chopped
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- ½ tbsp crispy chilli oil
- ½ tbsp sesame oil
- pinch of sugar
- 1 whole cucumbercut in half and deseeded
- ½ small watermelonskin and seeds removed, 500g flesh cut into chunks
- small handful of mintleaves picked and finely chopped
- 25g roasted peanutsroughly chopped
Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal424
- fat15g
- saturates3g
- carbs59g
- sugars23g
- fibre4g
- protein11g
- salt1.5g
Method
step 1
Cook the noodles following pack instructions, drain and rinse under cold water so they don’t stick. Mix the lime juice and shallot in a large bowl with a pinch of salt and set aside for 5 mins. Mix in the red chilli, soy sauce, chilli oil, sesame oil and sugar. Set aside for 5 mins.
step 2
Roughly slice the cucumber and tip into the bowl along with cooked noodles, watermelon and mint. Toss well to combine and serve with the peanuts scattered over the top.
