Oriental Halloumi-chickpea Salad
Here is a delicious vegeterian recipe for a high protein, aromatic summer salad, ideal for meal prepping or as a main course. The different ingredients give the salad an interesting mixture of consistency and taste.
From the crispy chickpeas to the juicy zoodles (Zucchini Noodles) and the firm Halloumi a great salad for mild summer evenings. The shrub gives the dressing a fruity sour note and rounds off the salad perfectly. Try it out yourself!
(If you want to know more about Shrubs, see below the recipe👇🏽) *
For 2 Servings (Meal-size)
Ingredients:
- 250 g Halloumi cheese 
- 220 g chick peas 
- 8-10 Cherry tomatoes 
- 1 head of lettuce 
- 1/2 courgette 
- 8 dates 
- 1 big apple 
For the dressing:
- 7 tablespoons of Freimeister Kollektiv Apple Quince Shrub 
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil 
- 2 teaspoons mustard 
- 2 teaspoons remoulade 
- Salt 
- Pepper 
How to:
- Put the chick peas in a bowl and season with olive oil, harissa and paprika (hot & sweet) spice, salt and pepper and put them in the oven for 25 min on medium heat. 
- Cut the halloumi into strips and fry them in the pan with some oil for about 3-4 min on each side until golden brown. 
- Process the zucchini in zoodles (zucchini spirals) with a vegetable spiral and then fry them in some olive oil for 2-3 min in the pan and add a little salt. Wash and quarter the apples, dates and cherry tomatoes if necessary. 
- Cut the Roma salad from the stalk into mouth friendly pieces and wash in a salad spinner. For the dressing, mix all the ingredients well together. Now everything can be arranged and served with the delicious Apple Quince Shrub Dressing. Bon appetite! - Let’s talk about Shrubs. What the heck are Shrubs? - A Shrubs is an acetic fruit syrup that has been stirring up the bar world for some time. Most people don't even know Shrubs yet. - They are not only ideal as a cocktail ingredient, but are also very useful in the kitchen, e.g. as a dressing in my salad creation that I developed for Freimeister Kollektiv. - A Halloumi Chick pea Salad with Apple Quince Shrub - Mustard Dressing. - They are also good helpers in digesting and have immune system boosting benefits. - Now you hopefully know a bit more about Shrubs. :) 
 
