Cooler on Fire Salad
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TypeSalad
Serves4 people
DateOctober 12, 2026
Salad as overheated cooler: cucumber and pepper form the newsworthy silhouette on your plate.
A sharp, tangy salad with long cucumber strips and bright red pepper slices, stacked to resemble an overheated cooling unit. Red onion and chili add tension, lemon gives acidity. The visual: a fridge gone wrong, straight from the supermarket news.
Ingredients
- 2 large cucumbers
- 2 red bell peppers
- 1 red onion
- 1 red chili pepper
- 1 lemon
- 100 g feta cheese
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp honey
- salt and black pepper
Method
- Slice the cucumbers lengthwise into wide strips using a cheese slicer.
- Cut the bell peppers into wide, straight strips.
- Slice the red onion into thin half rings.
- Slice the chili pepper into thin rings.
- Make a dressing with olive oil, white wine vinegar, honey, juice of half a lemon, salt, and pepper.
- Mix onion and chili with the dressing, let marinate for 10 minutes.
- Stand the cucumber strips upright on the plate as the walls of a cooling unit.
- Place the pepper strips between them as 'hot' elements.
- Crumble the feta on top for a 'melting' effect.
- Garnish with the marinated onion and chili. Drizzle extra lemon juice over.
- Serve immediately to keep the contrast between fresh and hot visible.
Serving notes
- Stand the cucumber and pepper strips upright in a square, as the outline of a cooling unit.
- Scatter the feta loosely on top, as if melting.
- Serve on a cool white plate for extra contrast.