I’m loving this spell of hot sunny weather as summer sings its swan song, time to make the most of it with this simple grilled vegetable salad! The last of my tomatoes are ripening beautifully on their vines, peppers and chillies are at their seasonal best and the courgette harvest just keeps on coming! I’m also looking at my fruit trees and I see the promise of apples and plums, there are pumpkins and gourds appearing on market stalls, blackberries and rosehips in the hedgerows and mushrooms pushing their way up through the forest floor – can you tell how much I love autumn?!
Today’s simplest salad recipe makes the most of the late summer crop – all that warmth and long lazy days locked up in a tomato ready to be released as you bite into it!
Simple Grilled Vegetable Salad
Ingredients
For the Salad
- 2 courgettes sliced on the diagonal
- 1 red 1 yellow and 1 orange pepper, halved and deseeded
- 150 g 2/3 cup yellow and red baby plum tomatoes
- 1 red cos lettuce
- 1/2 red onion peeled, halved and thinly sliced into half moons
- a handful of fresh basil leaves
- a little olive oil
For the Dressing
- 2 tbsp chilli oil
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place the peppers skin side up under a hot grill until the skins are blackened (about 15 minutes), put them into a bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave to cool completely.
- Brush the courgettes with a little oil and grill until browned, turning frequently, place on kitchen roll and leave to cool.
- Peel the skins off the peppers and slice thickly.
- Whisk the chilli oil and balsamic vinegar together and add salt and pepper to taste.
- Wash and drain the lettuce leaves and tomatoes.
- Lay the leaves in a bowl topped with the tomatoes, onion slices the grilled peppers and courgettes.
- Drizzle with the balsamic dressing, top with fresh basil leaves and serve.
This grilled vegetable salad sums up summer for me and I shall be eating it until the heat starts to fade and roasting season begins (probably tomorrow, this being England!)
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What are you cooking up to make the most of the summer’s bounty? If you’re in a salad mood why not make my Fresh Fig and Pumpkin Salad in the Autumn or my Avocado and Asparagus Salad in the Spring?
*I originally created this Grilled Vegetable Salad recipe for the July/August 2016 edition of Superfood Magazine*
Wow those colours! It’s hard to believe we’re nearing the end of summer at the moment what with the heat and such beautiful produce still blooming.
The chilli oil dressing sounds amazing!
A perfect way to use up those garden veggies. That dressing sounds so good!
Oh look at those colours! September is definitely the best month for seasonal veg, just can’t beat it. A lovely simple salad, full of summer sunshine!