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Curry Marinated Grilled Peaches and Blueberry Salad

Masego Mbonyana, Peaches

  • Serves 4 – 6
  • Prep time: 15 minutes
  • Cook time: 10 minutes
  • Total time: 45 minutes – including chill time

Ingredients

  • 4 peaches, cored and cut in eighth’s
  • 60ml olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon curry powder
  • ½ teaspoon orange zest
  • 125g blueberries
  • 80g wild rocket
  • 100g pecan nuts, lightly roasted
  • 100g danish feta

Honey dressing

  • 60ml honey
  • 60ml olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1 lemon, zest and juice
  • 10g Italian parsley, finely chopped
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

Method

Curry marinated peaches

  1. In a mixing bowl, combine prepared peaches with curry powder, olive oil, orange zest and a pinch of salt. Combine well and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
  2. Heat a griddle pan over high heat place, peaches on the pan and grill on each side until you have charred marks and set aside to cool. Reserve the curry marinade for the dressing.

Honey dressing

  1. Combine the reserved curry marinade with, honey, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lemon zest and juice, parsley and salt and pepper to taste and set aside.

Assemble

  1. On a salad platter plate, lay rocket, grilled peaches, blueberries, pecan nuts and crumble feta cheese.
  2. Drizzle dressing and gently toss salad just before serving and enjoy immediately.