Mint is the biggest herb plant in my garden. So I thought I would try to make something new with this one to start my herb-a-day blog going. It would be far too easy to post about a generic recipe I always make (ahem, mojitos!) so I wanted to try to combine it with something I've never tried before:
Strawberries!!!
Okay, okay -- so there aren't actually any strawberries growing on my plants yet, even though I'm reeeally proud of the fact that we are up to 9 plants this year in our little patch from the 2 we began with three years ago. :-D So I did go out and buy some local strawberries so I could make a really interesting new summer recipe I found in this month's County Living Magazine.
Here is the recipe:
Strawberry & Cucumber Salad
1 large cucumber
250g strawberries
juice & zest of 1/2 lemon
2 1/2 tbs olive oil
1 pinch caster sugar
1 tbs fresh chopped mint leaves
1/2 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
And here it is finished! It all smelled so lovely when I was making it, the kitchen felt so summery. The ingredients I wrote above are actually half of what it says in the magazine and I misssed out the zest of the lemon by accident. I am also a wimp and couldn't bring myself to put an ENTIRE chilli in it. We didn't have any red chillis in the house so I put a 1/3 of a green chilli in instead, which added a tad of a kick but not so much that it effected the taste too much. So it ended up being quite nice and mild and sweet and very minty. I even took the other half to work and had it for breakfast this morning.
Day 1 = Success! :-)
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