Dill & Sumac Summer Salad

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Although most often associated with the Nordics and Russia, dill is also popular in Persian cooking. And the Middle Eastern spice sumac gives this salad a distinctive tartness and beautiful burgundy hue. Serve as a quick and fresh accompaniment to summer BBQs.

Dressing Serves: 6

50ml olive oil
Juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp sumac

Salad ingredients

30g dill, chopped
1 red pepper, finely diced
1 cucumber, diced
2 medium ripe tomatoes, diced (approx 350g)
1 small red onion, finely diced
75g rocket
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper

Method

Stir together the ingredients for the salad dressing. Just before serving, toss together with the dill, salad vegetables, salt and pepper.

Dill & Sumac Summer Salad

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Nicola is co-founder and CEO at Sous Chef. She has worked in food for over ten years.

Nicola first explored cooking as a career when training at Leiths, before spending the next decade in Finance. However... after a stage as a chef at a London Michelin-starred restaurant, Nicola saw the incredible ingredients available only to chefs. And wanted access to them herself. So Sous Chef was born.

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