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Fast and easy family recipes: Recipe for cucumbers in mint dressing

This tasty recipe from Middle Eastern cookery features chilled cucumbers in a tangy mint dressing - a great salad for barbecues or family meals.

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Serves 4

INGREDIENTS:

4 tbsp. dried mint

1 tbsp. red wine vinegar

1 1/2 tbsp. sunflower oil

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. black pepper

1 large English cucumber, thinly sliced

6 red lettuce, shredded

METHOD:

Combine dried mint, red wine vinegar, sunflower oil, salt and black pepper in a bowl. Cover and chill for 1/2 hour to allow ingredients to blend flavors.

Meanwhile arrange red lettuce shreds on the bottom of a salad bowl. Remove dressing from fridge.

In another bowl, combine cucumber slices and dressing. Coat well and spoon minted cucumber slices on top of the red lettuce. Serve chilled as a side salad to chicken, fish, curry or barbecued meat.



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