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Pomegranate Salad
Baby lettuce, halved cherry tomatoes, spring onion thinly sliced, red chilli with seeds. Scattered with feta and a fistful of pomegranate seeds at the table. Honey-lemon-thyme dressing, whisked in the bowl before the leaves go in.
Total time
10 minutes
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
Origin
Polish-Levantine fusion
"The seeds arrived in Polish markets in the 1990s with the first wave of Levantine imports. Within a decade they were on every farm-to-table menu in Warsaw. Now no Sunday lunch at home is complete without them.
"On pomegranate in Polish kitchens
The single biggest failure mode is browning the lettuce with too much dressing too early. Whisk the dressing in the bowl, taste, then add the lettuce LAST. Toss once, serve immediately. Sit-time kills it.
