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Original recipe of the week: Courgette salad with mint and lemon

Original recipe of the week: Courgette salad with mint and lemon

Courgette isn’t a normal vegetable that you use in a salad, and is often forgotten about or just used with risotto or in the ratatouille. But with the right ingredients, it makes a perfect, fresh, tasty and light salad – great eaten alone or as an accompaniment to any dish.

Courgette salad with mint and lemon 

Serves: 2

photoCooking time: 10 minutes

What you will need:

3 courgettes

1 lemon

1 packet of mint

2 garlic cloves (roughly chopped)

3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

Rock salt and cracked black pepper to season

What you need to do:

  1. Finely slice all of the courgettes with a vegetable peeler until you have a bowl-full or ribbons.
  2. Next, add the chopped garlic to a frying pan with a little oil and fry until caramelised.
  3. Add the garlic to the rest of the olive oil and mix.
  4. Pour the oil and garlic over the courgette, and finely chop the mint. Add this in next.
  5. Slice the lemon in half, and squeeze all the juice over the courgette and combine, making sure that every ribbon is covered.
  6. Now simply season to taste and enjoy.

Bethany Stone

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