Saturday, May 24, 2014

Recipe: Feta cheese salad by Chef Inderjeet Singh

As a rule, I don't publish recipes on this blog, mostly because I'm not too crazy about food and I am no expert at it either. Plus, there are plenty of really good sites out their dedicated to food. 

But I'm making an exception to this because i love feta cheese and i love salads. Recipe by Chef Inderjeet Singh, Executive Chef at Country Inn & Suites, Mysore. 


Feta cheese salad with white wine vinaigrette

Ingredients
2 medium cucumbers, peeled 
50 mixed baby greens 
1 slice bread croutons 
20 shredded or matchstick  leek
20gm celery
1 large tomato
50gm feta cheese
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 
White Wine Vinaigrette

Method
Using a Y-shaped vegetable peeler, cut cucumbers lengthwise into thin strips just until seeds are visible. Discard cucumber core.
Shape largest cucumber slices into 4 (2 1/2- to 2 3/4-inch-wide) rings. Wrap evenly with remaining cucumber slices. 
Fill cucumber ring evenly with mixed greens, and all ingredients with feta cheese. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle salad with 1 tbsp white wine vinaigrette, and serve with remaining vinaigrette.


About Chef Inderjeet Singh
Chef Inderjeet grew up learning the art and science of cooking from his mother. This explains why the veteran with nearly 25 years of experience in the Taj Group, ITC Hotels and Carlson Hotels still has the enthusiasm of a child while engaging in his passion of conjuring eclectic culinary delights.



A believer that every culture has a unique food philosophy and the way we cook our food tells a lot about who we are, Chef Inderjeet has this inherent ability to transform cooking into a pleasurable art. 

Give him anything from a discarded bottle of spice, chipped plate from the restaurant, drift wood or the skin of a water melon and he will transform it into some exotic art piece. He believes that fresh organic produce is not just better because of its purity and lack of additives but because they taste better too. 

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