I have always loved a watermelon and feta salad – so refreshing and such a wonderful combination of flavour and texture, but add some sweet prawns and a herb salad and you have the Mediterranean on a plate – colour, flavour and texture to perfection. Add some crusty bread and you have a light meal for 4-6. Serve with a crisp Chardonnay.
Watermelon, feta, prawn and herb salad.
1 tablespoon olive oil
16 medium uncooked prawns, cleaned, tails intact
3/4 cup (loosely packed) each mint, coriander and flat-leaf parsley
1/2 cup (loosely packed) chervil
1/4 Spanish onion, very thinly sliced on a mandolin and soaked in iced water for 2 minutes
2 tablespoons lemon juice
60 ml extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra to serve
400g watermelon, cut into thin triangles
100g Greek feta, coarsely crumbled
Seeds of 1/2 pomegranate
