Salad of Lettuce Hearts

Name: Salad of Lettuce Hearts
Ingredients: bunch of watercress; Some good lettuce hearts; 1 hard-boiled egg; ½ punnet of cress; 1 tbsp wine vinegar; 4 tbsp virgin olive oil; salt and freshly ground pepper

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

About

Make sure that your hearts are nice and firm and you won’t go wrong with this simple salad.

Ingredients

Some good lettuce hearts
bunch of watercress
½ punnet of cress
1

Vegetarian
Spicy

Method

Arrange the lettuce hearts in a salad bowl and sprinkle over with finely chopped watercress leaves and cut cress. Separate the white of the egg from the yolk, and sieve both. Then sprinkle over the salad. Put the ingredients of the French dressing in a lidded jar and shake vigorously. Pour over the salad before serving.