Cheese salad with hummus dressing and pitta crisps

By Patricia_Scarpin

Ingredients

• 2 whole meal pitta breads
• 2 tomatoes, cut into chunks – I used cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 cucumber, cut into chunks
• extra virgin olive oil
• juice of 1 lime, divided
• 250 g queijo coalho or halloumi, cut into chunks
• dried oregano
• 2 tablespoons hummus (store-bought or homemade; recipe here)
• 75 ml natural yogurt
• salt and freshly ground black pepper

Details

Servings 2
Adapted from olivemagazine.co.uk

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF.
To make the pitta crisps, separate the pittas into 2 halves, cut into triangles and bake for 5-10 minutes until crisp. Set aside.

For the salad: toss the tomatoes and cucumber with 1 tablespoon olive oil and the half the lime juice. Sprinkle the cheese with a little oregano then grill or fry until golden. Mix the hummus and yogurt in a small bowl, add a little of the remaining lime juice + a little olive oil (to taste), mix well and season with salt and pepper to make a dressing.
Toss the cheese with the salad, drizzle over the hummus dressing and serve with the pitta crisps.