Fresh apple, fennel and feta salad

Name: Fresh apple, fennel and feta salad
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 75 g walnuts, roughly chopped; 75 g green (or golden) raisins; a small handful of coriander leaves, finely chopped; juice of 1 lemon; 1 small fennel bulb; a pinch of caster sugar; 2 green apples, such as Granny Smith; 175 g block of feta, cut into 4 squares; 1 garlic clove, crushed; 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 6 rashers of streaky bacon; 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

This is one of those simple, but totally satisfactory salads. The sour apple, salty feta and sweet raisins work like a dream. Omit the bacon for a veggie version.

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil
6 rashers of streaky bacon
75 g wal

Starter
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-based frying pan over a high heat. Add the bacon and fry until crisp. Drain on kitchen paper and chop or scrunch into smaller, bite-sized pieces. Wipe the pan clean and dry-fry the walnuts over a medium heat, until just toasted. Remove and set aside.
Core and halve the apples. Cut into thin slices and then into fine matchsti