Salad Recipes - Nutty Apricot Cooler

Ingredients

• 175 g/6 oz/1 1/2 cups ruote

• 100 g/4 oz/2/3 cup ready-to-eat dried apricots, quartered

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup pine nuts

• 12 stoned (pitted) black olives, halved

• 1 cucumber, diced

• 150 ml/2/3 cup soured (dairy sour) cream

• Grated rind and juice of 1 lime

• 15 ml/1 tbsp clear honey

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

• 15 ml/1 tbsp snipped chives

• Curly endive (frisse lettuce) leaves

• Cayenne

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Method:

1. Blend the cream with the lime rind and juice, the honey, a little salt and pepper and the chives.

2. Mix well, then pour over the salad and toss well. Chill for at least 1 hour to allow the flavors to develop.

3. Pile on to a bed of curly endive and sprinkle with cayenne before serving.