Penny Pickles’ Peckham Salad

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Preparation info
  • A Side Dish for

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

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So you’ve been and gone and gotten yourself some fancy free salad stuff? Here’s what to do with it...

Ingredients

  • 150 g/ oz.fine foraged leaves (see for commonly found varieties)
  • 3–4 tbsp ext

Method

Now the thing with foraged leaves is to wash them well. Generally speaking, all salad leaves should be plunged into a bowl of cold water, allowed to soak for around 10 minutes, then removed from the water and put in a colander to drain. The really dirty straight-from-Farmer-Giles’-field stuff is probably much healthier, but you will almost certainly need to wash it thoroughly in 2 bowls of wate