Name: Gem lettuce with fridge-raid dressing
Yield: Serves four as a side
Ingredients: 10 g parsley leaves; 10 g coriander leaves; 10 g dill; 10 g tarragon leaves; 10 g basil leaves; 85 ml olive oil; 1 green chilli (deseeded if you don’t like heat), roughly chopped; 1 tbsp tahini; ½ very ripe avocado, flesh scooped out (90 g); 3 cm piece of ginger, peeled and roughly chopped (20 g); 2 lemons: finely grate the zest to get 1 tsp, then juice to get 3 tbsp; salt; 1 small garlic clove, crushed; 1 tsp black sesame seeds (or white), lightly toasted; 4 gem lettuces, trimmed at the bottom and cut lengthways into eighths (400 g)

Preparation info

Serves
four
as a side

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ottolenghi Simple

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2018

About

This started off as a clear-up of all the herbs Tara had lying around in her fridge that needed using up (but was so good she ended up buying the herbs all over again to keep making it).

If you’re doing the same, clearing out the vegetable drawer, don’t be too precious about the weight of individual herbs: so long as you keep the total net weight about the same, you’ll be fine.

Make double the recipe for the dressing if you like: it keeps for 3 days in the fridge and is love