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Grilled spring onions, cucumber salad with radishes and cottage cheese

Published: 30 Apr 05
Updated: 18 Mar 24

This fresh crunchy salad with peppery radishes and cottage cheese is a quick and simple meal. It also makes for a fantastic sandwich filling, stuff it into pitta or any type of flat bread.

Easy
May 2005

Test kitchen approved

Serves 4
Ready in 15 minutes

This fresh crunchy salad with peppery radishes and cottage cheese is a quick and simple meal. It also makes for a fantastic sandwich filling, stuff it into pitta or any type of flat bread.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories: 192kcals
Fat: 13.7g (3.1g saturated)
Protein: 9.1g
Carbohydrates: 7.9g carbs (7.8g sugars)
Salt: 0.6g

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Ingredients

250g cottage cheese
2 bunches spring onions
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
1 small cucumber
1 small cos lettuce or 2 Little Gem, washed and roughly shredded
1 bunch small radishes
A dozen or so whole mint leaves

(sh) For the dressing
Juice of 1 lemon (plus a little zest)
3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp Dijon mustard

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Method

Drain the cottage cheese in a sieve to get rid of any excess whey.
Meanwhile, trim the spring onions of any wilted greens. Heat a frying pan or griddle and dry-fry them for about 30 seconds to 1 minute on each side. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt. Set aside on a plate.
Make the dressing by whisking all the ingredients together in a small bowl. Season well and set aside.

Peel and halve the cucumber lengthways. Run a teaspoon along the seed cavity to remove the seeds and discard. Finely slice the cucumber, then toss together with the lettuce, radishes, spring onions, mint and dressing. Scatter the cottage cheese curds over the salad to serve.

Recipe from May 2005 Issue

Nutrition

Nutrition: per serving

Calories: 192kcals
Fat: 13.7g (3.1g saturated)
Protein: 9.1g
Carbohydrates: 7.9g carbs (7.8g sugars)
Salt: 0.6g

delicious. tips

Look out for the flamboyant French breakfast radishes: bright pink with a white strip at the base. If the leaves look fresh, toss them into the salad – they taste a little like rocket.