Nigella Lawson served up a tasty pineapple and cucumber salad with red onions and rujak dressing on Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas.

The ingredients for the dressing are: 75 grams soft light brown sugar, 250 millilitres water, 4 tablespoons lime juice (from 2-3 limes), 1 teaspoon belacan / shrimp paste, 3 bird’s eye chillies and 1 teaspoon sea salt flakes.

for the salad: 1 small red onion (peeled and cut into fine half-moons), lime juice (and it’s fine to use the bottled kind), 1 large or extra large pineapple (2-2¼kg) (peeled and cut into approx. 2.5cm chunks), 1 large (350g) cucumber (peeled, halved and deseeded and cut into approx. 2.5cm chunks), 125 grams pomegranate seeds and small bunch of mint.

See more festive recipes by Nigella in her book titled: Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities available from Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities now.