Name: La Salade au Chapon (Salad with garlic flavoured bread)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: salt, pepper; 1 tablespoon walnut oil; 1 clove garlic; 1 dessertspoon wine vinegar; 1 thick slice of bread; lettuce or frisée; 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts (optional); 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Goose Fat & Garlic

By Jeanne Strang

Published 1991

About

Many country households make this simple but delicious salad after the walnut harvest. Un chapon or in patois lou capou is a garlic and oil-impregnated piece of toasted bread which is not only used to flavour a salad like this, but in poorer homes was eaten with a bunch of sweet grapes in place of dessert.

Ingredients

1 thick slice of bread
1 clove garlic
1 tablespoon

Method

Toast the slice of bread and while it is hot, rub it all over with the cut clove of garlic. Mix together the two oils and pour a tablespoonful over the toast, then put it in the bottom of your salad bowl.

Make the rest of the oil into a dressing with the vinegar and seasoning. Wash and dry the salad and dress it just before serving, sprinkling in the chopped walnuts, if used. The cha