Summer salad with feta and pickled cherries

Cherries are perfect for pickling. Throw together with some melon, courgette and salty feta for a refreshing summer salad.

Summer salad with feta and pickled cherries

 

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Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 50 ml red wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp sea salt
• 150ml water
• 100g caster sugar
• 200g cherries, halved, stones removed
• 1 medium courgette, stalk removed
• ½ cantaloupe melon, skin, seeds removed
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• pinch sea salt
• small handful mint leaves
• 100g feta

Method

1. Place the vinegar, salt, water and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
2. Boil for 2 mins, stirring to make sure all the salt and sugar has dissolved.
3. Take off the heat, pour into a bowl and leave to cool for 5 mins.
4. Add the cherries.
5. Slice the courgette and melon into long strips.
6. Toss in a bowl with olive oil and a pinch of salt.
7. Sprinkle on the mint, crumble on the feta and scatter over the cherries.
8. Drizzle some of the pickling liquid over the top.

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