Roasted Sweet Pepper Salad

Roasted Sweet Pepper Salad

450g sweet peppers/bell peppers
30ml + 15ml olive oil
30ml white wine vinegar
1 clove of garlic, minced
12 basil leaves, chopped
2 sprigs of thyme
5ml sugar
2,5ml salt
45ml pine nuts, toasted
125ml crumbed feta cheese
125ml olives, pitted

Turn your oven on the grill setting and line a baking sheet with aluminium foil.
Drizzle the 15ml olive oil on the peppers and spread evenly over each pepper with your hands. Place the peppers on the lined baking sheet and grill for about 15 minutes, until their skins are black. DO NOT take the peppers out too soon….they can not be too blackened!
Immediately place the charred peppers in a mixing bowl and cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Set aside until the peppers are cool enough to handle.
Break open the peppers, remove the core and seeds and pull the skin from each. It is easiest to use your hands to scrape the seeds out and it is quite all right for the peppers to tear into strips!
Add the peppers, oil, vinegar, garlic, basil, thyme, sugar and salt to a mixing bowl and refrigerate for one hour.
Arrange the marinated peppers on a serving plate and top with pine nuts, feta and olives.

Fig and Pomegranate Salad with Yoghurt Dressing

Fig and Pomegranate Salad with Yoghurt Dressing

This fruity, fresh salad is loaded with tastes of summer. The yoghurt dressing is healthy and can be drizzled in abundance as one should!

A mix of salad leaves, herbs and baby spinach leaves
Fresh, rip figs
1 large pomegranate
100g blue cheese

Yoghurt dressing:

90ml greek yoghurt
60ml olive oil
30ml lemon juice
90ml honey
5ml salt

Pack the salad leaves or whatever greens you prefer, onto a serving platter.
Tear or cut the figs into quarters and scatter onto the greens.
Now scatter the pomegranate seeds and chunks of blue cheese on top the salad.

Add all the ingredients for the dressing to a small mixing bowl and whisk together until it amalgamates.
Liberally dress the salad.
Serve with crusty bread as a light lunch.