WARM COURGETTE AND MINT SALAD WITH FETA AND LAMB-FAT DRESSING
Ingredients
- 2 Little Gem lettuces
- leaves washed and separated
- ½ bunch fresh coriander
- leaves picked
- stalks chopped
- bunch fresh mint
- leaves only
- 100g/3½oz pitted black olives
- roughly chopped
- 1 green pepper
- seeds removed
- diced
- ½ green chilli
- seeds removed
- sliced
- ½ red chilli
- seeds removed
- sliced
- 100g/3½oz feta
- crumbled
- 100g/3½oz leftover lamb dripping
- warmed (or extra virgin olive oil)
- 4 courgettes
- cut diagonally into 0.5cm/1/4in slices
- sea salt
- 25ml/1fl oz sherry vinegar
Directions
- Mix the lettuce leaves
- coriander leaves and stalks
- mint
- olives
- pepper
- chillies and feta together in a large bowl. Arrange the mixture on a large serving platter.
- Heat a little lamb fat (or olive oil) in a large non-stick frying pan over a high heat. Fry the courgette slices in batches until golden-brown on each side (about 1-2 minutes on each side). Sprinkle a little sea salt over each batch.
- Add the cooked courgette slices to the salad platter.
- Drizzle the sherry vinegar and the warmed lamb dripping over the salad
- then serve.

