Salad with figs and feta
Starters (Main salad or side dish (2 servings))
Ingredients
4 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp honey
1 clove garlic, crushed
150-200 g mixed salad
2 tbsp Chia seed
2 tbsp walnuts, roughly chopped
1 tbsp pine nuts (toasted) or
1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
1 red onion, cut into thin rings
6 dried figs, halved
100 g goat or sheep feta
petals of 1 rose
Preparation
Make the dressing by mixing olive oil, lemon juice, honey and garlic. Set aside.
Arrange the lettuce on a large platter and sprinkle with Chia seed, walnuts, pine nuts or pumpkin seeds, red onion rings and figs. Crumble feta on the salad and sprinkle with rose petals. Serve the dressing separately with the salad.
The salad can be served as a meal salad or as a side dish with fish.
Summer rose drink
Mix the tonic and the spring water in a large can. Add to taste some rose syrup or rose water.
Rose Petal Preserve
Preserving whole fruit or large pieces of fruit by cooking them with sugar syrup is a part of traditional cuisine in the Balkans.
Chocolate cake with rose water
Cut a circle out of a piece of baking paper large enough to cover the bottom of the baking tin and put it in.
Rose water
The best rose water is the one that has been distilled, but this is not an easy thing to do by yourself.
FRAGRANT ROSE BONBONS
Briefly boil the sugar, citric acid, strawberry puree and honey.