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Mixed grilled salad
Serves 6

This appetiser really does give salad a new meaning and will certainly brighten and decorate your dinner table.

2 large red peppers
1 large yellow or orange pepper
15ml/1tbsp olive oil
2 medium-sized courgettes, diced
10 green olives
10 black olives
1tbsp capers
4 large Turkish pickled
peppers or 1 pickled gherkin, cut into strips
4 large plum tomatoes
2tsp chopped mint
50ml/2 fl oz sweet or
balsamic vinegar
11/2tsp brown sugar
11/2tsp tomato purée

1. Grill the peppers until charred.

2. Peel the skin and cut the pepper into strips (saving as much of its juices as possible). Place in a bowl.

3. Heat the olive oil.

4. Sauté the courgette until golden brown, cool, then place in a bowl with the peppers.

5. Mix the remaining solid ingredients into the bowl.

6. Add the vinegar, sugar, tomato purée and stir well.

© Chico Francesco, The Citrus Tree, The Vegetarian Society, The Vegan Society