Watermelon, mint, feta and chilli salad recipe

Watermelon, mint, feta and chilli is one of my favourite salads: salty, spicy, sweet and clean-tasting.

Watermelon, mint, feta and chilli salad
Watermelon, mint, feta and chilli salad Credit: Photo: JEFF GILBERT

Serves 4

Ingredients
¼ of a large watermelon
7oz/200g feta
1 large mild red chilli
20 mint leaves
olive oil

Cut the skin from the watermelon and cut the flesh into thin slices. Don’t worry about the seeds. People can either eat them or pick them out.

Cut the feta into slices of a similar thickness. Don’t worry if it breaks up.

Cut the chilli into very thin rings, discarding any seeds that fall out.

Put the slices of watermelon flat on a plate and crumble over the feta.

Sprinkle with salt (mostly on the melon) and the rings of chilli, followed by the mint leaves torn up.

Pour over a little olive oil.