Name: Buffalo haloumi with lemon, mint and shallot salad
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 tsp olive oil; 100 gm buffalo haloumi, thickly sliced (see note); ¼ cup (loosely packed) each lemon mint, spearmint and Egyptian mint (see note); 2 golden shallots, thinly sliced; 50 ml cold-pressed lemon oil (see note); lemon wedges, To serve

Buffalo haloumi with lemon, mint and shallot salad

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for buffalo haloumi with lemon, mint and shallot salad.

House-made hummus with warm chickpea and coriander salad — Buffalo haloumi with lemon, mint and shallot salad

Serves 2

Prep

15M

Cook

10M

Total

25M

“We get our buffalo haloumi air-freighted from North Queensland, where I first saw it while visiting a market. It’s an amazing product, handmade and super-fresh. When you’re cooking with a product like this, one of the key ingredients is restraint. I let it speak for itself, simple and barely adorned.”

Ingredients

2 tsp olive oil

100 gm buffalo haloumi, thickly sliced (see note)

¼ cup (loosely packed) each lemon mint, spearmint and Egyptian mint (see note)

2 golden shallots, thinly sliced

50 ml cold-pressed lemon oil (see note)

lemon wedges, To serve

Method

Main

1.Heat olive oil in a frying pan over high heat, add haloumi, reduce heat to low and cook, turning once, until golden (3-4 minutes).

2.Combine mint and shallot in a bowl, season to taste and toss to combine. Transfer haloumi to serving plates, scatter with salad, drizzle with lemon oil and serve with lemon wedges.

If buffalo haloumi is unavailable, substitute regular haloumi. Lemon mint and Egyptian mint are available from nurseries. If they’re unavailable, substitute other varieties of mint. Cold-pressed lemon oil is available from select delicatessens.
This recipe is from the January 2012 issue of
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Drink Suggestion: 2010 Ross Hill Pinnacle Series Pinot Gris, Orange, NSW. Drink suggestion by Maurice Terzini & Robert Marchetti
Notes