Recipes - Cucumber and Mustard Salad
Salads are the backbone of summer eating, and picnic eating, and this is classically British, using cucumbers, lettuce, sherry and mustard, with the slightly alien element of chilli.
Peel and slice the cucumber and put into a bowl. Slice the red onion finely and add to the bowl. Remove the seeds from the chilli, and finely chop the flesh. Add to the cucumber with the vinegar, sherry, lemon rind and juice and the mustard, and mix well.
Leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
Drain of any excess liquid. Season, then serve on top of well-washed crisp little gem lettuce leaves.
