Green Salad with Honey Dressing

Name: Green Salad with Honey Dressing
Ingredients: a selection of lettuces and salad leaves, e.g. butterhead, iceberg, cos, oakleaf (green or bronze), Chinese leaves, lollo rosso, raddichio trevisano, rocket, salad burnet, golden marjoram or edible chrysanthemum leaves and edible flowers; a clove of garlic, crushed; 1 teasp. pure Irish honey; 3 fl ozs (90 ml/scant ½ cup) cider vinegar; 12 fl oz (350 g/1½ cups) approx. virgin olive oil; 1 tablesp. Irish whole grain mustard or moutarde de Meaux

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious 2

By Darina Allen

Published 1990

About

Green Salad has been included in all my books because we serve it with every lunch and dinner, varying the dressing to suit the menu. For this one, use delicious Irish grainy mustard, for example, the Lake Shore mustard flavoured with honey made by Hilary Henry on the shores of Lough Derg.

Ingredients

a selection of lettuces and salad leaves, e.g. butterhead, iceberg, cos, oakleaf (green or

Lunch
Side dish
Dinner
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Wash and dry very carefully the lettuces, salad leaves and flowers. Tear into bite-sized pieces and put into a deep salad bowl. Cover with cling-film and refrigerate, if not to be served immediately.

Meanwhile, make the Dressing. Mix all the ingredients together, whisking well before use. Just before serving, toss the leaves with a