Leeks Vinaigrette

Preparation info
  • 2

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Paupers Cookbook

By Jocasta Innes

Published 2014

  • About

Serve these cold, either as an hors d’oeuvre, or with cold meat or chicken. Choose leeks as near as possible the same size.

Ingredients

Method

Wash the leeks carefully - steeping them upside down in cold water helps to loosen the mud and grit - and trim them to roughly the same length, leaving an inch or so of green on each one. Plunge them into boiling salted water, and boil, covered, until tender but not mushy. The time depends on the size of the leeks - prod them with a fork to test them.

Drain them very thoroughly in a col