Feta & Peach Salad
One of the best ways to get loads of vitamins, minerals, fibre, plant stanols & sterols is to eat loads of fruit and veg. Fibre is being touted as a new miracle for health and well being but our grannies were talking about this years ago! Get as much fibre in daily as you can and you cant go wrong This delicious salad brings the taste of summer and reminds me of holidays which cant come soon enough! ripe peaches, some feta and lots of greens.
120g of green beans cooked and cooled
Handful of cherry/baby plum tomatoes – half some and quarter some
1/2 Cucumber de-seeded and sliced
1 bag of rocket
2 spring onion trimmed and sliced
1 block of feta sliced in half horizontally with a 2tbsp of olive oil and tsp of oregano tossed onto it
2 ripe peaches sliced
Add the feta to the centre of a serving plate, surround by the rocket, arrange the tomatoes, peaches, green beans and spring onion over it, and just before serving, drizzle over the dressing (below).
Serve with some crusty bread.
Classic Vinaigrette
The classic vinaigrette is twice the oil to vinegar, chopped crushed garlic, Dijon mustard, honey and seasoning including a pinch of sugar if needed. Simply whisk everything together to combine.
30ml apple cider vinegar
60ml oil
1tsp dijon mustard
1/2 tsp sugar
juice of half a lemon
1tbsp honey
Salt and pepper to taste