Refika’s Best Summer Salad Recipe | Healthy, Delicious and Vegetarian with Zucchini

Loveliest people of the world I've heard that zucchini is becoming really really popular to lose weight to feel fit and I have an old recipe which I love which is a zucchini salad with a bit of walnuts and a bit of halloumi that you can make under five minutes. Even for the salad haters this is a great recipe. I cannot promise you it's very low calorie but it is gorgeous. Now we have Check these parts by eating if it's very leafy which is broke. Cut these parts but not so much just these parts put them in a bit of olive oil a bit of salt a bit of vinegar. Okay now my sauce is ready beautiful greenness smells gorgeous. This will rest for one minute on the side. Here I have which is small grapes if you don't have small grapes you can use bigger ones or you can use some fresh berries as well that would work and then I put some hot water to this. Why do I do this? If they are dry when you put some hot water they come back to life basically and it becomes this juicy nice grapes again and on the other hand so a stainless steel or cast iron could do to a pan put some walnuts. I do not put that on pans like non-sticks. The reason for that is when you are toasting nuts on a non-stick the degree of the pan becomes really really high very fast. Non-stick starts to have toxic fumes after 220 degrees etc etc so not so good. Always use a cast iron or a stainless steel and when the nuts get cooked on their own in Turkey we have a which is frying in your own oil. It means like you don't get money from your father mother but you know you survive on your own kind of thing. This is the same thing when this nuts fry on their own they become even tastier. Anyways now let's move to the looking at the prima donna. I'm going to just score them like this. This way I increase the surface area and the great sauce that we have prepared with the basil it can get in better. Then I start shaving the zucchini. Yes you can use a mandolin for this. For example the first one was a little thinner I wanted to make it a little thicker. There's this belief that you shouldn't use the seedy parts. There's nothing like that there's no rule like that and it tastes quite good quite great and zucchini as you have seen it's quite edible raw. I'm using everything I'm not throwing anything away. As you can see from two zucchinis we have quite a nice big salad and there's always a tadpole that is coming in. You can cut it in and edit again not throwing anything away and finally we have one halloumi cheese here. I'm going to use half of it but it's just straight from its packaging. Always wash the halloumi. On the channel we have homemade halloumi and I come from Cyprus which is the heaven for halloumi. It sits on the brine until it comes to your house and that brine that is extra saltiness should go away so always wash it before you use it. If you like big chunks you can use them like this but I'm going to dice them. If you're going to use the rest of the halloumi after a certain amount of time then cut it in half wash it and leave it in brine. I want to use the same pan to cook the halloumi's. There's some walnut dust I take that out but the pan still has that walnut smell. Put the halloumi in like that and if there's one rule in cooking the halloumi Bahar, do you know what that is? What else? Yes, so two rules in cooking the halloumi put it in a hot pan high heat and do not turn it until one side totally cooks. If I turn it just right now for example this one the likelihood for it to melt lose its form is higher. This way if one side cooks then you turn it then the shape becomes more stiff and inside becomes more juicy for the same reasons that happens in meat. And the walnuts roughly chop them there are these black parts which are when you toast them like this at least 10 times tastier. Most of the walnuts get in I'm going to leave some for the decoration then the sauce can get in smells amazing. We use everything this is important I mix it well the most important thing that every slice of the zucchini gets its share of the sauce. Have a taste a little more salt but halloumi is gonna get in so watch out. As you can see halloumi's are great look at the crunch like they were half in size they get in so some walnuts also get in and finally a bit of fresh olive oil always works for the vegans without the halloumi you're great and for vegetarians bahar a really nice feast. If you order this in a restaurant and comes and you eat it you will be very satisfied and thankful. As you can see you can do this in five minutes ten minutes at home so delicious so fulfilling so tasty. I have been waiting for this all morning thank you very much don't forget to subscribe leave a comment we love you.