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Nodini, avocado, fermented black bean and basil salad with toasted garlic shards

10 minutes

Nodini, avocado, fermented black bean and basil salad with toasted garlic shards

By Luke Dale-Roberts

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

8 pieces nodini (knotted) mozzarella
2 ripe avocados, peeled and diced into 1.5cm pieces
1 lemon, juiced
2 T sesame seeds, toasted
6 cloves garlic, finely sliced and deep-fried until golden
16 fresh basil leaves
20 ripe baby Roma tomatoes, halved

For the fermented black-bean dressing

50 g lemongrass, chopped
1 5cm piece ginger, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
3/4 cup olive oil
2 T sesame oil
4 T brown sugar
3/4 cup sherry
125 g soaked fermented black beans

Method

Arrange the salad ingredients on a platter and drizzle over the dressing.

To make the dressing, fry the lemongrass, ginger, garlic and onion in the oils. Add the sugar and sherry, and boil for 5 minutes. Add the soaked beans and stir through. Cool.

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German kassler chops with red cabbage

Berbere paste

Chicken wot

Roast butternut salad

Lemon polenta cake

Chocolate, cardamom and orange cake

King prawns, butterflied and basted in lemon and butter

Potato rosti with cream cheese and salmon

Strozzapreti (ricotta-and-spinach dumplings)

The perfect aïoli

Persimmon and smoked mozzarella salad with pine nuts and pine-needle honey

Nodini, avocado, fermented black bean and basil salad with toasted garlic shards

Nodini, avocado, fermented black bean and basil salad with toasted garlic shards

Ingredients

Method