Name: Waldorf Salad Jamie’s Way
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons white or red wine vinegar; 2 large handfuls of seedless or seeded green or red grapes, halved; 1 heaped teaspoon Dijon mustard; 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 3 medium sticks of celery, trimmed; 150g/5oz blue cheese, such as dolcelatte; 2 large handfuls of walnuts, roughly crumbled; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 heaped tablespoon natural yoghurt; 4 large handfuls of interesting lettuce leaves (frisée, romaine, endive, rocket, watercress or anything else you fancy), washed and spun dry; A Small bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Around the World in 80 Dishes

By David Loftus

Published 2012

About

This speciality dish was created by Oscar Tschirky, maître d’hotel of the Waldorf Hotel in NYC in the 1890s. ‘Oscar of the Waldorf’ is also said to have developed Eggs Benedict and popularized Thousand Island Dressing. As Cole Porter sang, ‘You’re the top! You’re a Waldorf salad.’ This is a Big Apple classic from Jamie Oliver.