Grilled Haloumi with Chickpeas

Name: Grilled Haloumi with Chickpeas
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: handful each of coriander and mint leaves, chopped; 125 g (4½ oz) cooked chickpeas; 350 g (12 oz) haloumi cheese; harissa, to serve; large slices of skinned roasted red pepper, to serve (optional); 3–4 tbsp olive oil; 4–5 spring onions, chopped; juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2004

About

People just love Grilled Haloumi, and its texture goes so well with that of the chickpea salsa. Cut the cheese into fat cubes if you are going to thread them on to skewers for the barbecue; flat strips let the marinade into the cheese more readily.

Ingredients

350 g (12 oz) haloumi cheese
harissa, to serve
large sli

Asia
Starter
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

First make the salsa by mixing all the ingredients together.
Cut the haloumi into 1 cm (½ in) slices or 8 mm (⅜ in) cubes and leave to drain on kitchen paper so it will crisp up better during cooking.
Preheat a griddle or dry, heavy frying pan until very hot and then sear the haloumi slices or cubes until well browned, turning once.
Pile the sa