Insalata di Aringhe, Arance e Pompelmi

Name: Insalata di Aringhe, Arance e Pompelmi (Salad of Smoked Herring, Orange and Grapefruit)
Yield: For 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 smoked herring fillets, thinly sliced; 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 2 tsp white wine vinegar; Freshly ground black pepper; 2 pink grapefruit; 4 oranges; 1 red onion, cut into thin rings; Fennel fronds, to decorate

Salad of Smoked Herring, Orange and Grapefruit

Preparation info

For
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Carluccio's Complete Italian Food

By Antonio Carluccio and Priscilla Carluccio

Published 1997

About

This typically refreshing Sicilian recipe probably came about as a way of using the abundant crops of citrus fruit and the smoked herrings that would have been brought to the island by visiting ships.

Ingredients

2 pink grapefruit
4 oranges
1 red onion, cut into thin rings

Europe
Italy
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Sicily
Mediterranean

Method

Peel the grapefruits and oranges, removing all the white pith, then cut out the segments from between the membranes. Do this over a bowl to catch the juice, then squeeze out any juice from the membranes. Arrange the fruit segments on a plate and scatter over the onion rings, then arrange the herring slices on top.

Add the oil, vinegar and some pepper to the grapefruit and orange juice t