What the Wok? Grilled Wok Cucumber, Kingklip and Halloumi Salad
What to make with Wok Cucumbers
When Pick n Pay sent me these wok cucumbers, my first reaction was “What the wok?” Wok + cucumber just didn’t ring a bell. But after working with this beautiful ingredient I am hooked. Use the cucumber as a replacement for marrows and in stir fry, it’s divine!
Ingredients to make a Grilled Wok Cucumber, Kingklip and Halloumi Salad
2 whole wok cucumbers quartered lengthways and into then halves
1 whole red onion (sliced)
4 portions of Kingklip
1 punnet of exotic mushrooms
1 punnet coriander
1 packet pok choi
3 tbsp sesame seeds
200 ml crafted collection Asian bbq sauce
Olive Oil
200g Halloumi
How to make a Grilled Wok Cucumber, Kingklip and Halloumi Salad
Trim and prep all vegetables and then generously cover in olive oil, black pepper and salt.
Grill all vegetables until char lines appear. Keep the vegetables firm and crispy.
ADD how to cook the kingklip
Slice halloumi, warm the bbq sauce and add to salad, then top with sesame seeds
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About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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