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La Salade au Chapon
Salad with garlic flavoured bread
Preparation info
- Serves
4
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 1991
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 thickslice 1 clove 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