Crunchy iced vegetable salad with candled almonds

Name: Crunchy iced vegetable salad with candled almonds
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 8 baby leeks, trimmed; salt; 40 g whole almonds; 40 g caster sugar; 8 asparagus spears; iced water; ½ bunch radish; 12 baby carrots, scraped clean; 1 Lemon and Honey Dressing recipe; 4 baby fennel bulbs; 8 new potatoes, peeled

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple to Sensational

By Jun Tanaka

Published 2010

About

Be careful with your fingers when you make this salad and dress it right at the last minute. Keeping the vegetables on ice makes them curl beautifully and become ultra crunchy.

Ingredients

8 new potatoes, peeled
salt
8 baby leeks, trimmed
40 g

Sensational
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Cook the new potatoes as in step 3 of the recipe. Cook the leeks in salted boiling water for 4 minutes.
Place the caster sugar in a pan, add a tablespoon of water and heat. Wait until the sugar turns a golden colour, then add the almonds. Coat the nuts in the caramel for 1 minute and then place on a tray lined with baking parc