Midsummer Salad

Discover the perfect balance of flavors in this vibrant Midsummer Salad! With the arrival of summer and an abundance of fresh fruits in the market stalls, it is a great time to incorporate some of your favorite summer fruits into your daily greens. Refreshing, easy to make, and perfect for clean eating! You won’t be let down with this easy to make yet impressive salad.

This midsummer salad is full of colors and flavors, really though, it hits all five of the main tastes sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Combining these different tastes creates a more balanced and complex flavor. With the sour (lemon, thin edible slices in addition to the drizzled juice),  sweet (cherry, honey) and bitter (arugula) balancing each other out while the salty (salt) and umami (walnut) help round out the flavor. Finding the right harmony of these tastes is a key part of crafting unforgettable recipes, and this one is no exception.

Midsummer Salad

Discover the perfect balance of flavors in this vibrant Midsummer Salad! A must-try healthy summer salad recipe, it’s packed with fresh, seasonal ingredients and hits all five taste sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Refreshing, easy to make, and perfect for clean eating!

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course Salad

Cuisine Mediterranean

Servings 2 peiople

Ingredients

  

• 100-150 gr Arugula/Rocket
• 4 medium stalks of Swiss Chard
• 5-10 Cherries
• 8-10 full pieces Walnuts
• 1 small Tomato
• 1 small Cucumber Persian
• 1 small Shallot

Sauce

• 1 small Lemon for squeezing and adding thin slices to top off the salad
• Honey for drizzling
• Olive Oil for drizzling

Instructions

 

Mise en Place (The Set Up)

• Dice the tomato, cucumber and shallot,
• Roughly Chop the arugula, swiss chard and walnuts
• Roughly Slice the cherries
• Thinly Slice half of the lemon

Combine your roughly chopped greens, arugula and swiss chard, in a large bowl

Place the diced tomato, cucumber and shallot into the middle of the salad

Place the cherries and walnuts around the salad

Vestibulum ante ipsum primis elementum, libero interdum auctor cursus, sapien enim dictum quam.

Drizzle with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and honey per your liking.

Keyword balanced, cherry, salad, summer