- ½ cucumber
- A bag of bulgar wheat
- A handful of flat leaf parsley
- A handful of mint
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 pot of yogurt
- 2 spring onions
- A punnet of heirloom tomatoes
- 1 lemon
- 1 pack of halloumi
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 1 tbsp olive oil plus a little extra for frying
- Chopping board
- Knife
- Teaspoon
- Colander or sieve
- Saucer
- Pan with a lid
- Kitchen paper
- Grater or garlic crusher (optional)
- Bowl
- Lemon zester or grater
- Whisk or fork
- Frying pan
- Spatula or palette knife
- 1.
Slice the cucumber open. Teaspoon out the seeds. Finely chop the cucumber. Pop in a colander or sieve. Sprinkle with some salt. Place in the sink with a saucer weighed down with a tin for 10 mins.
- 2.
Fill a pan with water. Add a pinch of salt. Cover. Bring to the boil. When it’s boiling, add the bulgar wheat. Simmer with the lid on for around 8-10 mins till it’s fluffy and tender. Drain.
- 3.
Strip the leaves off the parsley and mint sprigs. Finely chop the parsley stalks, parsley leaves and mint leaves. Pat the cucumber dry with kitchen paper.
- 4.
Peel and grate or crush the garlic. Mix the cucumber, garlic and yogurt together. Add a spoonful of the chopped mint. Season with pepper. Put to one side.
- 5.
Trim and finely slice the spring onions. Roughly chop the tomatoes. Finely grate or pare the zest from the lemon. Juice ½ the lemon. Tip the drained bulgar wheat into a bowl.
- 6.
Stir the parsley leaves, stalks, mint leaves, spring onions, tomatoes and lemon zest into the bulgar wheat. Whisk the lemon juice with 1 tbsp olive oil. Season. Stir into the salad.
- 7.
Slice the halloumi into pieces about 1/2 cm thick. Warm some olive oil in a frying pan. Add the halloumi. Fry for 2 mins. Flip. Fry for another 2 mins till golden. Serve with the tzatziki and salad.
- Tip
Tonic boom Leftover cucumber? Sun still out? Add sticks of cucumber to tonic water and ice for a speedy refresher. Great with gin in a mojito.