Barbecue Lettuce & Leeks with Garlic Dressing

Name: Barbecue Lettuce & Leeks with Garlic Dressing
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: ½ fresh chilli, finely chopped; salt and pepper, to taste; zest and juice of 1 lemon; 1 tablespoon sweet paprika powder; 3 garlic cloves, grated; 60 ml (2 fl oz/¼ cup) olive oil; 2 large leeks, washed thoroughly between the layers and halved lengthways; 6 heads baby gem lettuce, halved

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Celebrate

By Bettina Campolucci Bordi

Published 2021

About

Lettuce is one of those ingredients that many people think you can only have in salads. I beg to differ and enjoyed a similar dish in Southern Spain when I lived there for 12 years. The garlic dressing just makes the dish here.

Ingredients

6 heads baby gem lettuce, halved
2 large leeks, washed thoroughly between the layers and halved lengthways

Method

Prepare and heat up the barbecue.

While waiting for the barbecue to heat up, make the dressing. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan (skillet) over a medium heat, then remove from the heat and add the remainder of the ingredients. They will infuse in the residual heat. Set aside.

Put the lettuce and the leeks, flat-side down first, on the barbecue and cook on both sides until nice