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Carambola salad

Jazz up your salad by adding some star-shaped slices of carambola. A fabulous, refreshing salad to serve with your main course.

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Ingredients

Carambola salad

  • ½ red sweet pepper
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    1 carambola (star fruit)
  • 1 tbsp pine nuts
  • 1 tomato
  • ¼ cucumber
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    1 lime
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp smooth mustard
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 25 g mixed salad leaves
  • salt and pepper

Preparation method

  1. Remove the seeds from the sweet pepper and slice the flesh into thin strips.
  2. Slice the carambola. Heat a frying pan and toast the pine nuts on a medium heat for about 3 mins.until golden brown. Cool on a plate. Slice the tomatoes into wedges. Slice the cucumber thinly.
  3. Squeeze the lime. Combine the honey oil, mustard sugar and olive oil to make a dressing. Season with the lime juice, salt and pepper. Mix the salad leaves with the sweet pepper, tomato and cucumber. Drizzle with the dressing. Divide the carambola over salad. Scatter with the pine nuts.

Nutrition value per person/bite

Energy
525 kcal
Protein
7 g
Fat
37 g
Saturated
5 g
Carbohydrate
37 g
Sugars
33 g
Fibers
7 g

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