Intercept Salad
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TypeSalad
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 26, 2026
Green bell peppers as rockets, red onion as interception: a salad full of tension and spice.
Long, diagonally placed green bell peppers as rockets, with half red onion as interception dome and a sharp, spicy dressing. The salad visually represents the intercepted rocket from the news, with tension from chili and acids.
Ingredients
- 2 green bell peppers
- 1 red onion
- 200 g cherry tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 100 g feta cheese
- 1 red chili pepper
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp honey
- salt and pepper
Method
- Wash the bell peppers and cut them lengthwise. Keep the halves whole.
- Cut the red onion into thick half rings.
- Halve the cherry tomatoes.
- Slice the cucumber thinly at an angle.
- Crumble the feta coarsely.
- Slice the red chili pepper into thin rings.
- Mix olive oil, white wine vinegar, lemon juice, honey, salt, and pepper into a sharp dressing.
- Place a half green bell pepper diagonally on each plate as a ‘rocket’.
- Place a half ring of red onion at the wide end as an ‘interception dome’.
- Distribute tomato, cucumber, and feta around the ‘rocket’.
- Sprinkle red chili over the salad for extra tension.
- Drizzle with the dressing.
Serving notes
- Serve on a large white plate for contrast.
- Let everyone add extra chili for more heat.