Grilled Halloumi Cheese & Spinach Salad with Tapenade

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Grilled Halloumi Cheese & Spinach Salad with Tapenade

Number of servings: 2
Estimated Prep Time: 15 minutes
Estimated Cooking Time: 10 minutes

You need fresh spinach as opposed to frozen or tinned as this is a salad. Take a large handful of spinach leaves, wash them, and remove any large stalks.

Dried tomatoes preserved in oil should also be nice instead of the fresh tomato: try about 1 tablespoon chopped.

Ingredients

1/2 pound Halloumi Cheese

1/2 Lemon (zested)

1/4 Tomato (chopped)

2 teaspoons Tapenade

3 tablespoons Olive Oil

Salt

Ground Pepper

Spinach (leaves, fresh)

Directions

Slice the cheese into 8 slices.

Mix together in a bowl all the other ingredients, reserving the spinach leaves and 1 tablespoon of the olive oil.

Heat the remaining tablespoon of oil over medium heat and fry the cheese slices until golden on each side, about 2 minutes per side.

Dress 2 plates with the spinach leaves.

Remove the cheese from the frying pan, leaving the pan on the heat, and put 4 slices of the fried cheese on each plate. Now, dump the dressing that you mixed above into the frying pan, and heat it for about 30 seconds (see why we left it on the heat for a second?) Pour over the salad and serve immediately.