This fresh salad works as a lovely accompaniment to any meal, with ripe avocados, chrunchy croutons and romaine lettuce and tangy sumac.
Serves4
CourseSide
Prepare10 mins
Cook10 mins
Total time20 mins
Pluscooling
Ingredients
1 Waitrose Half Ciabatta, torn into bitesize pieces
1 tbsp olive oil
½ tsp Cooks' Ingredients Simple Sumac
1 pack 2 Perfectly Ripe Avocados, peeled, stoned and cubed
1 cucumber portion, diced
175g pack fresh Waitrose Chargrilled Artichokes
1 tbsp vinaigrette salad dressing
1 romaine lettuce, torn into pieces
100g bag watercress
2 tbsp Kalamata or other black olives
Method
Preheat the oven to 200?C, gas mark 6. Place the ciabatta in a large bowl, add the oil and sumac and toss well together. Spread out on a baking sheet in a single layer, then bake for 10 minutes until crunchy and golden. Leave to cool.
Toss together the avocado, cucumber, artichokes with their dressing and the vinaigrette.
Place the lettuce and watercress in a large salad bowl and spoon over the avocado and artichoke mixture. Scatter over the olives and croutons and serve swiftly.
Cook’s tip
Sumac is a citrusy-flavoured berry commonly used in Middle Eastern dishes. It can be replaced in this salad by ground coriander.
