Watermelon, green apple and lime salad

Name: Watermelon, green apple and lime salad
Yield: Serves six as a side
Ingredients: 3 limes: finely grate the zest to get 2 tsp, then juice to get 3 tbsp; 2 Granny Smith apples, cored and cut into 7cm long, ½cm wide batons (250g); flaked sea salt; ½ tbsp black mustard seeds, lightly toasted; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 lemongrass stalks, trimmed, woody outer leaves discarded, then finely chopped (10g); ½ medium watermelon (1.3 kg), rind and seeds discarded and flesh cut into 7cm long, ½cm wide batons (600g); 5 g mint leaves; 10 g coriander leaves

Preparation info

Serves
six
as a side

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ottolenghi Simple

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2018

About

This is delicious as it is – it screams summer, it screams virtuous and it definitely screams delicious – but some salt-roasted peanuts, pistachios or cashews sprinkled on top also work as a nice addition.

Ingredients

½ medium watermelon (1.3 kg), rind and seeds discarded and flesh cut into 7cm long, ½cm wide batons (600g)
2 Granny Smith apples<

Method

Mix the salad just before you’re ready to serve, otherwise it will get too soggy. In a large bowl, combine the watermelon, apples, lime zest, lime juice, olive oil and lemongrass with three-quarters of the herbs and ¾ teaspoon of flaked salt. Using your hands as a natural sieve,

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