Salad of Parma Ham, Mozzarella and Peaches

MW 2021:

Marriage Week 2024:

Salad of Parma Ham, Mozzarella and Peaches

This recipe by

Claire Macdonald

Introduction

This is a meal in a salad. It takes 2-3 minutes to put together, but it tastes so good. It is surprisingly filling. Mint ‘makes’ this salad. Use ordinary bought mint, but if you can buy applemint, it is the best!

Ingredients

120g lettuce leaves of your choice – I like a crunchy lettuce such as cobb, torn or chopped into bite sized bits
4 ripe peaches or nectarines, each stuck on a fork and dipped into a pan of boiling water for 30 seconds. Their skins then peel off easily. Chop the peaches or nectarines, discarding the stones.
8 slices of parma ham, torn into bits
2 balls of buffalo mozzarella, each torn into bits
About 10 mint leaves, torn into bits
1/2 teaspoon salt, about 10 grinds of black pepper
Extra virgin olive oil to drizzle into the salad
Juice of 1/2 lemon

Method

Put the prepared lettuce, torn parma ham, mozzarella and mint into a serving bowl. Add the chopped peach or nectarine flesh, the salt and black pepper and drizzle extra virgin olive oil over. Add the juice of half a lemon and mix all thoroughly.

Serve.

Claire Macdonald

Claire Macdonald is an award winning chef, cookery writer and hotelier. A passionate and early advocate of Scotland’s natural environment and organic food production, she is known for using the best of Scottish seasonal ingredients in her recipes.

You can see Claire in action on her website.

Why are you supporting Marriage Week

We celebrate our Golden wedding in June this year. To some, being married for 50 years is almost unthinkable – 50 years with the same person! Well, for a start and I can only speak for myself, but the past 50 years have flown by. It feels so much less. I don’t feel as old as I am, and I am still waiting to feel grown up. And I am very firmly of the opinion that there are two vital ingredients to help a marriage through the inevitable ups and downs. These ingredients, completely essential, are laughter and food. It’s impossible to know which is the most important, but possibly food has the very slight edge on humour!

We all need to eat to remain alive. It’s as basic as that. But it’s what we eat and how we eat that really makes the difference to how we feel, how we behave, and which helps a marriage, a family, get the most out of life.

Any top-tips?

In our marriage, how we eat as well as well as what we cook is very important – Sharing a meal together around a table is a priority whereas sitting with a tray watching the TV will hinder good communication! It means that we are not only eating but talking. I feel so strongly that lack of communication between a husband and wife is the reason for a marriage to falter. Food is the natural conduit to communication!

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