Insalata di Zucchine e Menta (Raw Summer Squash Salad) | James Beard Foundation

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup dried currants
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/4 cup raw pine nuts
• 2 medium yellow squash, seeded and julienned
• 2 medium green zucchini, seeded and julienned
• 1 green Serrano chile, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• Juice from 1 lemon
• 1/2 bunch mint, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup chopped oil-cured black olives
• 1/4 cup sliced ricotta salata
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste