Grilled Haloumi Salad with Some Crunch!

A week ago, I invented & made this lovely delicious colourful grilled haloumi salad! Yummy that it was! It is quick to make in a jiffy! It is also perfect in this hot weather we are having lately here in Belgium,…

Delicious!

This is & SUPER TASTY SALAD where you can put anything in that you like! I used a combo of 3 sorts of quinoa & raw &cooked veggies & grilled haloumi salad. Perfectly topped with a simple home-made balsamic vinegar dressing! It is THAT SIMPLE! Let’s make it now!

Recipe: For 4 persons

Ingredients:

For the salad:

cold cooked quinoa for 3 persons: I used a combo of white, red & black quinoa that I cooked in some hot vegetarian stock & drained well, put into the cold fridge.

2 thick peeled carrots, peeled into thin wider ribbons

2 spring onions, cleaned & cut up into rings, fresh from the garden

1 can of corn, well-rinsed & drained

1 red bell pepper, deseeded & white bits removed, cut up into cubes

mixed fresh salad leaves from the garden

1/2 cucumber, peeled & cut up finely`

black pepper

some sea salt

1-2 blocks of haloumi, drained well & pad dry, each one carefully cut up into thicker strips

that same peppery extra virgin olive oil

For the dressing:

a good peppery extra virgin olive oil

sea salt

black pepper

a good aged balsamic vinegar

Method:

Take your cold cooked quinoa out of the fridge & add all other veggies to it except the salad leaves! Mix well & season a bit with black pepper & some sea salt. Place back into the fridge for at least 1 hour.
Heat grill pan up on high heat. side. Take chopping board & place all strips of haloumi on it. Brush one side with that lovely olive oil & wait until grill pan is extremely hot. When hot, place your oiled haloumi strips onto the hot griddles of the pan & grill for at least a few minutes each. Place them the way that you will have horizontal stripes on your cheese. That looks so pretty! Brush the upside with olive oil. Grill them for 1-2 minutes more. Turn, heat off.
At the same time, make the simple quick dressing. Take a fitted jam pot & add all ingredients. screw lid on & shake jam pot up & down a few times to let the ingredients mingle. Taste. It must taste lovely!
Plate up. Place mix of salad leaves all over each plate. Place 2 spoonfuls for more of your quinoa-veggies mix on top of the salad leaves & arrange 4 haloumi slices per plate. Now, just before serving, drizzle a few teaspoons of the dressing all over your quinoa salad but not over your haloumi, please! Enjoy, with loved one’s & a nice glass of chilled grenache rosé!