Paint your plate with colours of the rainbow with these nutritious summer salads

For nutritious summer salads that taste as good as they look, check out a new cookbook stuffed with recipes inspired by the Middle East 

FOOD TO GO: Nicola Crowley and Divir Nusery own and run Mezze in Tramore. The couple started selling their colourful salad selection at farmer’s markets in 2015.

"Salad that is served with lumps of egg and tomato and beetroot through it is a horror.”

In her 1963 book Monica’s Kitchen, Irish food writer Monica Sheridan had very definite ideas of what to avoid in a salad. Unfortunately for most of us, her advice didn’t filter through, and the salads of the 1970s and ’80s involved a lot of limp lettuce leaves, tasteless fridge-cold tomatoes and rolled-up slices of ham, with vinegary jarred beetroot bleeding all over proceedings.