Glacier Wave Salad
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TypeSalad
Serves4 people
DateAugust 28, 2026
Warm salad as a glacier breaking into a wave across the bowl.
A warm salad shaped like a broken glacier: a mountain of potatoes, blue-veined feta as ice, and a wave of river vegetables. The presentation echoes the Nepal disaster’s flood, comforting and hearty, no fuss.
Ingredients
- 800 g waxy potatoes
- 200 g feta (preferably blue-veined)
- 1 cucumber
- 2 stalks celery
- 1 small fennel bulb
- 100 g lamb’s lettuce
- 1 bunch fresh dill
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp capers
- pepper and salt
Method
- Peel the potatoes, cut into large chunks and boil in salted water until tender. Drain and let cool slightly.
- Cut the feta into rough, irregular chunks.
- Slice the cucumber lengthwise into thin ribbons. Slice the celery and fennel diagonally. Slice the red onion into half rings.
- Make a dressing from olive oil, lemon juice, chopped dill, capers, pepper and salt.
- Mix the warm potato chunks with half the dressing and half the lamb’s lettuce.
- In a large bowl, build a slanted 'glacier slope' of potatoes, making a broken edge on one side. Stack the feta along this edge to look like broken ice.
- Let the cucumber ribbons, celery, and fennel flow out from the feta-ice edge like a 'wave' into the bowl. Scatter red onion and remaining lettuce over the wave.
- Drizzle with the remaining dressing and garnish with extra dill.
Serving notes
- Serve in a large bowl so the glacier silhouette remains visible.
- Scoop from the 'glacier' downwards at the table, like a flood wave.