Watermelon salad with chicken and dried gbejniet
Author: www.amaltesemouthful.com (Marlene Zammit)
Cuisine: Maltese and Mediterranean
- 4 chicken breasts or thighs
- 4 rashes of bacon chopped into small cubes
- 2 tablespoons honey
- Juice of 1 lemon
- basil
- mint
- bacon chopped into
- Rocket leaves
- Watermelon cut into smallish rectangular pieces
- 4 small peppered gbejniet or some crumbled feta
- Toasted almonds
- Olive oil
- Sliced red onion if you wish.
- Mix the chicken, bacon, honey, lemon juice, some chopped basil and mint.
- Leave for half an hour.
- Grill the chicken and bacon (with the juices) until cooked through.
- Now assemble the salad.
- Place some rocket leaves in the bottom of a salad bowl.
- Add in the watermelon and crumbled gbejniet.
- Add some more chopped basil and mint and finish off with some toasted almonds.
- Make a dressing of olive oil, a little lemon juice and honey.
- Drizzle on top.
- Season with a little more pepper.
- You can also add some thinly sliced red onion if you wish.
Recipe by A Maltese Mouthful at https://www.amaltesemouthful.com/watermelon-salad-gbejniet/
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