Cucumber Orange Salad
Cucumber Orange Salad is a refreshing, cooling and easy to make salad. Perfect for the summer, this salad can be enjoyed as a side or as a light meal. Add any cheese of your choice.
Ingredients
For The Salad:
- 2 oranges
- 1 small cucumber
- 6 red radishes
- ½ cup feta cheese cubes
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small onion
- 12-14 mint leaves
- handful salad leaves
- 6-8 walnuts
- 1 tbsp raisins
For the Orange Salad Dressing:
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ½ tsp orange zest rind
- ½ tsp cumin seed powder
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
Instructions
PREPARE THE SALAD:
- Slice the cucumber and radishes thinly.
- Peel and slice the carrot thinly.
- Grate the rind from one orange and keep it on the side.
- Remove the peel from the oranges. Cut into slices and then cut them into quarters.
- Wash and dry the salad and mint leaves.
- Peel and cut onion into thin slices, vertically.
- Roast the walnuts lightly on a pan over low heat.
- Mix cucumber, radishes, walnuts, orange,raisins, onion, mint leaves and feta cheese in a salad bowl.
PREPARE THE ORANGE SALAD DRESSING
- Roast the fennel seeds lightly in a pan over low heat.
- Roast sesame seeds in a pan over low heat till they begin to pop.
- To prepare the dressing mix all the ingredients. I like to use a jar with an airtight lid to shake the dressing.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and serve.
- If you want to serve the salad chilled, put it in the fridge without the dressing.
- Pour the dressing just before serving or let everyone help themselves to the dressing.
Notes
- Use red, white or yellow onion.
- If you don't have vinegar, replace it with lemon juice.
- Add fresh basil instead mint.
- Add other salad ingredients of your choice.