WATERMELON, FETA & SPINACH SALAD
Watermelon, Feta & Spinach Salad is delicious, refreshing and filling. It is a perfect salad for hot summer days. With feta, mint, spinach and olives it provides a balance of sweet and savoury flavours.
Ingredients
- 2 cups watermelon cubes or balls
- 12 -15 baby spinach leaves washed
- 10 -12 black olives cut into halves
- ½ cup feta cheese cubes or crumbled
- ¼ cup mint leaves
Salad Dressing:
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar or lemon juice
- ¼ tsp salt or according to your taste
- ½ tsp coarse pepper powder
- sweetener optional
Instructions
- Cut the watermelon and keep in the fridge till required.
- Chop the mint leaves. Pat dry the spinach leaves on a kitchen paper towel.
- In a bowl mix the feta cheese, olives, spinach leaves and mint.
- In another bowl mix the dressing ingredients.
- To serve add the watermelon and dressing and toss the salad gently.
Notes
- If you don't like Feta then replace it with Goat Cheese, paneer or halloumi cheese.
- Can add thin slices of a small white onion.
- Add other salad greens instead of spinach.
- Add nuts like walnuts, pine nuts.
- Add fresh basil instead of mint.