Warm Salad with Radicchio, Pear and Walnut in light Balsamic dressing
Warm Radicchio with Pear, Walnuts and with — or without — Feta Cheese in a light balsamic honey glaze served on a bed of baby spinach. For your elegant dinner starter, as dinner for one or as a lunch time treat. Enjoy!
Servings: 2
Ingredients
Warm Salad Ingredients
- 2 Radicchio outer leaves removed
- 1 Red Onion
- 1 Pear
- 50 gram Baby Spinach
- 30 gram Walnuts
- 30 gram Feta Cheese optional
Dressing
- 1 Tsp Olive Oil
- 2 tsp Balsamic Vinegar
- 1 tsp Honey
- Pinch of Cinnamon
- Pinch of Nutmeg
- Za'atar to taste optional — adds fab flavour!
- Salt and Pepper as per taste
Instructions
For The Salad
- Take out a bowl, and prepare your dressing. Use the spices to you taste, but go sparingly on the salt as it can take over easily.
- Chop the Onion in slices, and roughly cut the Radicchio into shreds.
- Cut your Pear into long slices (approx. 1 cm thick)
- Add the vegetables and pear into your bowl and mix throughly with your hands (they are such good tools, right? :) )
Cooking Process
- Heat up a griddle pan, and add the content of your bowl.
- The Radicchio and Pear mix will shrivel and liquify in its own juices helped by the balsamic honey dressing that now turns sticky. After about 5 (five) minutes the warm salad is ready to be placed on a bed of Baby Spinach.
Final Flourish
- Place the Baby Spinach on a serving plate, and spoon your warm salad on top.
- Add the walnuts.
- Now you can choose to grate Feta Cheese on top - or not if you are non-dairy, vegan or just prefer not to.
- Enjoy
Notes
Serve as warm as possible, and enjoy as starter, main course or treat.
Can easily be scaled up if you have guests.
For conversion from metric you can use this link: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking/ Adapted from Jamie Oliver
Can easily be scaled up if you have guests.
For conversion from metric you can use this link: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking/ Adapted from Jamie Oliver