Leafy Winter Salad
Updated Dec. 17, 2024
- Total Time
- 15 minutes
- Prep Time
- 5 minutes
- Cook Time
- 10 minutes
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Ingredients
- 5tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2teaspoons honey or maple syrup
- 1 to 3garlic cloves, grated, to taste
- Kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal) and black pepper
- 1head radicchio
- 1head Castelfranco (or substitute butter lettuce)
- 3heads Belgian endive
- Flaky sea salt
- 1bunch watercress
For the Dressing
For the Salad
Nutritional analysis per serving (8 servings)
93 calories; 9 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 6 grams monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 4 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram dietary fiber; 1 gram sugars; 1 gram protein; 196 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Make the dressing: Place the olive oil, red wine vinegar, honey, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt and a few twists of black pepper in a jar and cover and shake to combine.
- Step 2
To prepare the salad, trim any brown ends off the radicchio, Castelfranco and endive heads. Click off the radicchio and Castelfranco leaves and tear each into three. Click off the endive outer leaves and slice the hearts lengthwise. Place all these in a large bowl and toss with two-thirds of the dressing. Taste for seasoning and adjust with any flaky sea salt if needed, before folding through the more delicate watercress and spooning some extra dressing on top, if the salad needs it.
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@Xanadu - you can calm the bitterness of the radicchio by soaking the leaves in ice water for a couple hours before making the salad. Then dry them and tear into your desired size. Smaller pieces will allow a forkful to combine your greens so the whole bite isn't raddichio. It is bitter but, treated right, it is also delicious - and beautiful!
Highly suggest adding a Cara Cara orange, or some citrus to this - it added an extra element that brought out the sweetness of the dressing and the bitter lettuce
Gorgeous salad and simple, delicious, perfectly matched dressing. Delivers much needed winter freshness and crunch. We subbed red butter lettuce for the castelfranco (admittedly less bitter, but just as gorgeous). Don't skimp on the endive, as its sweetness helps to ease the bitterness of the raddichio.
I am rather „ known“ in assorted circles for my creative and tatsy salads so I tend not to seek out recipes for them. Howevet was feeling burned out from all the holiday feasting and found this gem of a salad! So simple! It was meant for New Year‘s Eve as a side to an evening of Raclette so I added pomegranate seeds, walnuts and clementine orange slices to give some colour and it was perfect. The salad was govbled up before we even had our little pans heated with the first rounds of raclette!
Great salad--but not for the holidays. Even in Washington, DC, it was impossible to find radicchio, Belgian endive or watercress, much less Castelfranco! Substituted arugula for the watercress and thinly sliced radishes for the radicchio, butter lettuce for the Castelfranco. Finally found the endive! Doubled the maple syrup. Salad was still easy, great and gorgeous.
What a winner of a recipe! I was lucky enough to find all of the greens (including the castelfranco!) at my local WF. I was worried it would be bitter, but it was really well balanced and the dressing is perfect. It is also visually really appealing. Some folks in the reviews have mentioned adding citrus, and I can see how that would be a great addition. Will definitely make again.