Recipe: Yummy Sig's Goats cheese, tofu and cucumber salad

Sig's Goats cheese, tofu and cucumber salad. A simple salad made with ripe heirloom tomatoes, garden fresh cucumbers and creamy goat cheese is drizzled with olive oil and a plenty of fresh basil. It is not only a delightful way to enjoy tomato and cucumber season but it embodies Vinnie's diet plan which includes plenty of FAT! Cucumber Tomato Salad is a refreshing spin on a classic lettuce salad.
Light and cool and easy to make. I added some thinly sliced red onions and added a little sugar to the dressing. I had fresh goat cheese from a local farm and it was the perfect match for this salad. You can cook Sig's Goats cheese, tofu and cucumber salad using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Sig's Goats cheese, tofu and cucumber salad
- Prepare 1/2 of large cucumber washed and peeled with peeler to make even stripes, cut in half length ways, deseeded and sliced thinly.
- You need 30 grams of good feta cheese.
- Prepare 1 stick of fresh mint, chop leaves finely.
- It’s 1 of small handful of marinated tofu strips chopped finely.
- It’s 1 pinch of each fresh cracked black pepper, I sometimes use a very small sprinkling of chilli flakes instead.
- You need 4 of quality black olives.
- It’s 2 1/4 tbsp of olive oil.
- It’s 1/2 of lemon, use peel only for grating lemon rind.
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Sig's Goats cheese, tofu and cucumber salad step by step
- Wash and peel cucumber so that you get stripe pattern,thinly slice,drizzle with the olive oil.
- Crumble feta add over the top of cucumber..
- Chop mint very finely and mix carefully under the salad.
- Cut the tofu into small cubes and lift carefully into salad..
- Grate the peel of 1/2 a lemon only, only use the grated peel.
- Add black olives, either halved, chopped or whole and the lemon gratings and season slightly with fresh cracked black Pepper or chilli flakes if using..
- Cover and chill for thirty minutes.
Arrange cucumber slices around tofu, and fan avocado slices on plates. Scatter sprouts, then green onions over vegetables. A creamy goat cheese and cottage cheese blend provides satisfying and comforting flavor I use sumac to bump up the already satisfying and comforting Top the celery with a layer of cucumber slices. Season if desired with salt and pepper and sprinkle on more dill. Simple but inventive salads are a signature at Ned Ludd restaurant in Portland, and chef Jason French brings that same knack to this fresh salad for his beach menu.