Wilted Dandelion Salad

Name: Wilted Dandelion Salad
Ingredients: 2 tbsp wine vinegar or sherry vinegar; freshly ground black pepper; 2 tbsp wine vinegar or sherry vinegar; 3–4 good handfuls of young dandelion leaves; 4 rashers smoked streaky bacon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

In France and Belgium, dandelion is cultivated as a salad vegetable. It is a favourite bistro salad, and is often served with a poached egg on top.

Ingredients

3–4 good handfuls of young dandelion leaves
4 rashers smoked streaky bacon
freshly ground black pepper

Gluten-free

Method

Wash the leaves in several changes of warm water, and dry them in a salad spinner or clean tea-towel. Place in a salad bowl. Fry the bacon until crisp, and crumble over the salad. Pour the hot fat over the leaves, too, and mix well, seasoning with pepper. Deglaze the frying pan with the vinegar, and stir into the salad. Serve immediately before the bacon fat has time to congeal.