Recipe

July 5, 2019

If Summer Were A Salad

Recipe: Rosie Daykin

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Prep Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Try this If Summer Were A Salad recipe from Rosie Daykin’s new cookbook Let Me Feed You.

Rosie Daykin's Let Me Feed You cookbook

Close your eyes and imagine the juice of a ripe nectarine dribbling down your chin, the faint smell of warm earth on tomatoes and the lingering perfume of fresh mint on your hands. Summer tastes good!

Ingredients

  • 6 nectarines, quartered and cut in 1⁄4″ slices
  • 1 cup fresh English peas
  • 2 cups (1 pint) cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 cup thinly sliced watermelon radishes
  • 1 cup finely sliced mint
  • 1⁄4 cup finely sliced basil
  • 3 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1⁄2 tsp salt
  • 1⁄4 tsp pepper
  • 1 cup pea shoots (big handful)

Directions

Yield: Serves 6

Assemble Salad

  1. In large serving bowl, combine nectarine slices, peas, tomatoes, radishes, mint and basil, and gently toss.
  2. In small bowl, whisk together oil, vinegar, mustard, sugar, salt and pepper. Dress salad and gently toss again. Season with more salt and pepper, to taste. Top salad with big handful of pea shoots and serve.
Photographer:

Janis Nicolay

Source:

This recipe is from Let Me Feed You by Rosie Daykin, Appetite by Random House, 2019.

Tags: Nectarines Rosie Daykin Salad summer recipes

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