Cookbook:Tarbes Salad

Tarbes Salad

Category

Salad recipes

Servings

2-4

Time

20 minutes

Difficulty

Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes | Salad Recipes

Tarbes salad is a sweet and sour salad that is both tasty and easy to make.

Contents

1 Ingredients
o 1.1 Salad
o 1.2 Dressing

2 Procedure

3 Notes, tricks, and variations

Ingredients
Salad

1 white or yellow onion

1 tablespoon of olive oil

Half a head of your favorite lettuce

About 5 walnuts, broken into bits

1 ripe orange, cut into small pieces

Small chunk of hard blue or Roquefort cheese, diced

Dressing

50 ml extra virgin olive oil

25 ml Balsamic vinegar

1 teaspoon whole grain mustard

A squirt of lemon juice

salt and pepper to taste

Makes 1 generous salad

Procedure
Cut the onion into half moons and brown it in a bit of olive oil. Make it nice and crispy. Once
it's done, put it aside in a bowl and squirt a bit of lemon juice on it.
As the onion is cooking, wash the lettuce thoroughly. Soak it several times. Nothing is worse
than gritty lettuce in a salad. Break the lettuce into bite-size pieces and drop them in your
spinner under running water. Once it's washed, spin it until it's dry. Wet lettuce will dilute the
dressing.
Once the lettuce is dry, put it in a bowl. Add the onions, walnuts, orange and cheese.
To make the dressing, just mix the ingredients in a jar and give them a good shake.
Toss everything together in a big bowl and serve.

Notes, tricks, and variations

Prepare the lettuce and onions early. Add the onions to the lettuce (once they've cooled
down) and cover the bowl. This will allow the onions to flavor the lettuce.

Put a bit of beer in with the onions as you brown them, or even white wine or
vermouth.

Add some minced garlic either to the dressing or to the onions.

Use a ripe pear or a kiwi instead of the orange.

Add a sliced up, deeply browned zucchini in addition to or instead of onion.

If you're in a hurry, skip the onion/zucchini.

Brown the walnuts with the onions in olive oil.

Turn the salad into dinner by adding strips of chicken or turkey (heavily salted and
peppered, browned in butter).

Double the dressing ingredients and save yourself the trouble the next day. Also, you
can wash and break up all of your lettuce at once and store it in an airtight bag in the
crisper drawer of your refrigerator.

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