Haloumi Salad

Seeing as how Ireland is simply blessed with fantastic weather salads are an essential summer dish. Well ok not really the weather, but salads are a delicious dish. It's just a pity many of the famous ones have meat in them. I'm tired of reading menus and just about letting myself salivate to discover that the dish is covered in parma ham or other bits of pig or poultry.

This salad, however, is Mediterranean inspired dish, using haloumi and sharon fruits. Due to my political leanings my sharon fruits are sourced from South Africa and not Israel.

Ingredients

1 block haloumi cheese

Spinach leaves

Peti Pois

1 whole sharon fruit

On a chopping board dice your haloumi into half inch cubes. On a lightly oiled frying pan fry till golden on all sides. Meanwhile in a pot boil your peas. On a chopping board peel and chop your sharon fruit into bite sized chunks

Arrange the salad leaves in a bowl add your cooked peas, haloumi and sharon fruit.

Dressing

3parts good olive oil

1part balsamic vinegar

salt and pepper to taste

Generously dress your salad. This salad serves 1 for a good meal, 2 for a light snack