Avocado and Grapefruit Salad with Smoked Salmon

Name: Avocado and Grapefruit Salad with Smoked Salmon
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: ½ cup/125 ml vinaigrette dressing made with lime juice instead of vinegar or lemon juice; 3 oz/90 g arugula or other bitter salad greens; 2 pink grapefruit; 2 avocados, peeled and sliced lengthwise; 4 oz/125 g smoked salmon, thinly sliced

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

La Varenne Pratique

By Anne Willan

Published 1989

About

Any type of grapefruit may be used in this salad, but the pink variety lends color. Serve as an appetizer or light main course.

Ingredients

2 pink grapefruit
3 oz/90 g arugula or other bitter salad greens

Europe
France
Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Pare the zest from one of the grapefruit and cut it in julienne strips. Blanch the strips of zest in boiling water for 2 minutes and then drain. Cut segments from both of the grapefruit. Wash and dry the salad greens and cut them in a chiffonade. Make the dressing.
Spread the greens on four plates. Cut the salmon slices into strips and arrange on the greens, ov