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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a main course or 6 as a first course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

In France, it’s quite common to eat pissenlits, or dandelion greens, as a casual salad. In this more composed version, we combine them with frilly, crisp escarole and frisée as a crunchy, peppery counterpart to sweet citrus and persimmon rounds. You can use any citrus you’d like, really. We like a mix of orange, grapefruit, pomelo, pink lemon, and kumquats, but blood oranges and other lemons and limes are also delicious here. Dressed with a light citrus dressing and a shower of chopp