Recipe: Nectarine and cucumber salad with tahini-lemon dressing

Summer is here and with it the time for refreshing salads! I particularly like the combination of nutty, sweet and tangy-sour in this recipe. But my favorite ingredient is the fresh peppermint!

Ingredients per serving:

• 1 nectarine, in medium sized pieces
• 1/4 cucumber, in medium sized pieces
• 3-4 stalks of peppermint, leaves
• 3 tbsp tahini
• 1/4 lemon, juice only
• Pepper
• 1/4 tsp salt
• Optional: roasted pistachios

Preparation:

• Mix the nectarine, cucumber and mint in a bowl.
• Add the tahini, lemon juice, pepper and salt, taste and season if necessary.
• Optional: Sprinkle roasted pistachios over the salad.

Food styling tips:

• Instead of serving the salad in a bowl: Take a slightly larger plate, e.g. the flat plate from our Speckled Beige collection, and leave enough space to spread some tahini decoratively over it. Arrange the salad in a line on one side of the plate (not exactly in the middle).  
• No symmetries: Deliberately do not sprinkle the pistachios evenly everywhere, this creates a nicer picture.
• For photos: Leaving a few ingredients around the plate creates excitement and makes the picture "livelier". If you want a good exposure for your photo, you can place the table with the plate directly next to a large window and take the photo from above so that the light comes into the picture from above.