Ballot Box Salad

Ingredients

• 3 medium cooked beets, diced
• 200 g feta, cut into a rectangular block
• 1 cucumber, in half-moons
• 1 yellow bell pepper, in strips
• 100 g lamb's lettuce
• 12 black olives
• 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 1 tsp mustard
• 1 tsp honey
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Cook the beets, let cool, and cut into small cubes.
2. Cut the feta into a rectangular block about 8x4x2 cm.
3. Slice the cucumber into half-moons and the yellow pepper into strips.
4. Make a dressing with olive oil, white wine vinegar, mustard, honey, salt, and pepper.
5. Arrange the lamb's lettuce neatly in a rectangle on a large white platter.
6. Place the beets in two straight lines along the long sides of the lettuce, like polling station walls.
7. Place the feta block centrally as the ballot box.
8. Distribute cucumber and pepper pieces in sections to mark different 'zones'.
9. At each short end of the feta, place 3 olives as 'guards' at the entrance.
10. Drizzle everything with the dressing just before serving.

Serving notes

• Serve on a rectangular white platter for the polling station effect.
• Keep the feta ballot box whole until at the table, cut only when serving.
• Place the platter centrally and serve with solemn precision.