Winter Salad

Name: Winter Salad
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2 tsp dried tarragon; salt and black pepper to taste; ½ cup olive oil; 3 tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 tbsp Dijon mustard; a good handful of watercress or a bitter red leaf like radicchio; 2 large heads of fennel, very finely sliced; 3 red beetroots, 2 yellow beetroots, both raw and very finely sliced or shaved with a peeler or mandolin; a good handful of watercress or a bitter red leaf like radicchio; a good handful of watercress or a bitter red leaf like radicchio; 6 cups baby gem and/or cos lettuce, torn; 6 cups baby gem and/or cos lettuce, torn; 4 small white turnips, very finely sliced or shaved with a peeler; 3 red beetroots, 2 yellow beetroots, both raw and very finely sliced or shaved with a peeler or mandolin; flaked sea salt and black pepper to taste; 3 pinches of popcorn or other interesting sprouts (optional); 3 pinches of popcorn or other interesting sprouts (optional); 4 tbsp pomegranate jewels (optional); 1 tsp dried thyme (or 1 tbsp fresh); 2 tbsp melted butter; 2 tbsp olive oil; flaked sea salt and black pepper to taste; salt and black pepper to taste; 4 cups country bread torn into crouton-sized chunks; 4 cups country bread torn into crouton-sized chunks; ½ clove garlic, finely grated

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Set a Table

By Karen Dudley

Published 2018

About

Here is a salad that gives you the opportunity to showcase the best vegetables you can find. It is perfectly admissible to feel righteous about putting on such a display! Serve as an accompaniment or as a starter. A little secret: a clever cook told me to sprinkle some lemon juice over croutons before baking them… it works like a charm!

Ingredients

a good handful of watercress or a bitter red leaf like radicchio
2 large heads of fennel, very finely sliced

Starter
Vegetarian
Winter

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Start with the croutons. Mix the oil, butter, thyme and grated garlic in a small bowl. Drizzle this mixture all over the torn bread in a large bowl and toss with your hands. Lay out the bread in a single layer on a baking sheet and season with salt and pepper