Lily Higgins: Halloumi and sesame salad with honey

Halloumi and sesame salad with honey
Halloumi and sesame salad with honey
Serves: 4
Course: Main Course
Cooking Time: 0 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

  • Halloumi and sesame salad with honey
  • 100g salad leaves
  • 1 beetroot, peeled and cut into thin matchsticks
  • 250g block of halloumi cheese
  • 150g sesame seeds
  • 100g flour
  • 1 egg
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • 1 tbsp. olive oil
  • To serve: honey for drizzling over
  • Oil for frying the halloumi

Prepare all of the salad ingredients first. Place the salad leaves in a large bowl or serving platter. Scatter over the matchsticks of beetroot. Squeeze over the lemon juice and add the olive oil. Gently mix so the leaves are just glistening. Set aside.

Pour the oil into a wide high-sided frying pan, it will need to be about 1½ inches high.

Crack the egg into a cereal bowl and whisk to combine. Place the flour and sesame seeds into two separate cereal bowls. Cut the halloumi into bitesize pieces. Coat each piece in the flour, egg and finally the sesame seeds. Once all of the pieces are coated drop them gently into the hot oil. Fry till golden on the outside. It’s best to try and cook them all in one batch as the seeds will burn if left in the oil too long. Two batches will just about work. Once the halloumi is cooked place it on kitchen paper to remove any excess oil then tumble the crunchy halloumi bites over the salad and drizzle with honey. Serve right away. The cheese tastes the best while it’s still hot.

Lilly Higgins

Lilly Higgins

Lilly Higgins, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a food writer

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