Rick Stein’s roasted nectarine salad with feta and mint recipe

“Salty cheese, fruit and mint with a bit of honey in there, too, is the sort of salad that makes me long to be back in Sydney,” says Rick Stein.

“I remember a lunch at the house of a famous, now sadly departed, art dealer named Ray Hughes. The table was literally one long line of large platters of salads like this one, with acres of prosciutto, melon, basil everywhere, halloumi, pomegranates, prawns and oysters, all partnered with sensational Chardonnays. It was one of those lunches you never want to end.”

Roasted nectarine salad with feta and mint

Ingredients

(Serves 4 as a side or 2 as a light supper)

3 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp runny honey

6 nectarines, stoned and halved

2 red onions, cut into wedges

80g pea shoots or lamb’s lettuce

150g feta, cubed or crumbled

A few mint sprigs, leaves only, roughly torn

30g almonds, roughly chopped

Vinaigrette:

1 tbsp red wine vinegar

2 tsp runny honey

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/Fan 180°C.

2. Mix the olive oil and honey in a roasting tin, add the nectarines and red onions, then toss to coat. Roast in the oven for about 20 minutes until tender, then leave to cool to room temperature.

3. Mix the vinaigrette ingredients in a jug and season with salt

and pepper.

Rick Stein’s Simple Suppers (BBC Books, £28). Photography by James Murphy.