Name: Courgette Salad with Minty Tomato, Raisins and Pine Nuts
Yield: For 6 As A Generous Side Dish
Ingredients: juice of 2 lemons; 750 g/1 lb 10 oz courgettes (zucchini), very finely sliced; 1 level tsp dried mint; 120 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup olive oil; 1 level tsp coarse ground black pepper; ½ tsp salt; 75 g/2¾ oz/½ cup raisins, soaked in water for 20 minutes or so; 6 garlic cloves, minced; 4 nice large firm tomatoes, very finely sliced; 75 g/2¾ oz/½ cup pine nuts; big handful of fresh coriander (cilantro), shredded; big handful of fresh mint, shredded

Preparation info

For
6
As A Generous Side Dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

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Some useless culinary information for you, just in case you didn’t read the intro properly. Iranians (together with quite a lot of Central Asia) believe that all food has hot or cold properties. That’s not as in ‘ouch – hot’ or ‘woah – cold’, but rather pertains to its effects on the metabolism (think Avicenna and the four humours). Some stuff – so-called hot food – races through the system while other less digestible food (‘cold’) moves very slowly. An imbalance of either can leave you fee