Fennel, Radicchio, and Citrus Salad
Fennel and citrus salad with fennel vinaigrette is a light, healthy, Mediterranean salad and makes a nice change from the same old bowl of greens.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 2 small bulbs fennel
- 1 small head radicchio, (use 1/2 head if your head is larger)
- 1 orange
- 1 pink grapefruit
- fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
Fennel Vinaigrette (you'll have extra dressing)
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 Tbsp champagne vinegar (or other mild white vinegar)
- 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp honey Dijon mustard , *If using regular Dijon mustard, add a dab of honey as well
- 1 fistful fennel fronds
- salt, to taste
Instructions
- Trim the stalks from the fennel and peel off any rough outer leaves. Slice 1/8 inch on a mandoline slicer, or with a very sharp knife. Reserve the leafy fronds. If your fennel is young you don't need to remove the core, but if your bulb is larger, remove the core before slicing.
- If your fennel starts to brown, put it in a bowl of cold water with lemon juice.
- If your radicchio is whole, then halve it, remove the core, and thinly slice or shred it.
- Remove the peel and either segment or slice the orange and grapefruit into thin slices
- Arrange the radicchio, fennel, and citrus on a plate or platter.
- Put the dressing ingredients in a jar big enough to fit your immersion blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Taste to adjust the seasonings, or the acidity through the lemon juice and vinegar. If you like you can blend in more fennel fronds.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad, and top with freshly cracked black pepper, and some fennel fronds.
Notes
- If you'd like to make the salad ahead of time, leave off the dressing until you're ready to serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 0.25 of recipe · Calories: 175 kcal · Carbohydrates: 13 g · Protein: 1 g · Fat: 14 g · Saturated Fat: 2 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 10 g · Sodium: 15 mg · Potassium: 267 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 8 g · Vitamin A: 821 IU · Vitamin C: 42 mg · Calcium: 35 mg · Iron: 0.4 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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