[Italia] How to cook Buckwheat salad

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Ingredients

  • 1 onion, peeled and finely diced
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1½ cups buckwheat
  • 3 cups vegetable stock
  • 5 rashers streaky bacon or pancetta
  • 1 punnet cherry tomatoes
  • ¾ cup frozen peas
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika (see Note)
  • ½ cup almond slivers, toasted
  • 1 preserved lemon, rind only, rinsed and finely diced
  • ½ cucumber de-seeded and finely diced
  • 1 x 400 g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed well
  • 1 handful Italian flat leaf parsley leaves, finely chopped
  • 1 handful mint leaves, torn
  • 80 g feta cheese

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