Looking for a pretty holiday salad to set the tone? There is nothing like a sweet, astringent, earthy, nicely seasoned salad to get the salivary glands going. Preferably one where the lettuce is freshly picked and the dressing just a little exotic.
Lollo Rosso is my favorite lettuce and it is not always easy to find. Its leaves are frilly and crisp holding vinaigrette within it folds and the flavor richer than most red lettuces.
The pomegranate is a fascinating fruit rich in history, symbolism, and packed with flavor. Its juice is naturally sweet-tart easily replacing vinegars or wines in many recipes.
And the seeds look like jewels. Hard to resist edible rubies…
Ingredients
- 3 bunches lollo rosso lettuce
- 1 bunch frisée lettuce, yellow inner leaves only
- 1 asian pear, sliced paper thin
- 1 handful of pomegranate seeds to sprinkle
- 3 T pomegranate juice (POM Wonderful)
- 2 T champagne vinegar
- 4 T Stonehouse persian lime olive oil
- 2 T extra virgin olive oil
Mix vinegar and pomegranate juice together.
Then whisk in both olive oils. Season with salt and pepper.
Dress lollo rosso with vinaigrette. Then dress frisée & asian pears separately with a little splash of olive oil, champagne vinegar, and salt (so that it doesn't turn pink).
Plate lettuces together with pears and sprinkle pomegranate seeds on top.
Drizzle pomegranate vinaigrette around plate.
Where do you find that lettuce?
Any hints? This looks fab! Lime olive oil…I’m stumped on that one too. I once owned a bottle of Champagne vinegar..wonder if it’s still lurking in the pantry…hmmm
MIAM
That lettuce is rarely available. I liked your recipe and will surely give it a try on some special event. Thanks for sharing.
A salad is a mixture of foods that include vegetables and fruit, this salad makes a dish low in calories and rich in nutrients and also provides us with satiety. These qualities make the salad a plate full of benefits:
I have the Lollo – and am planning on making this for a salad with sush – IF I can find/make up the Persian Lime Olive oil! Yikes!!!
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The pear is a fruit rich in vitamins (A, B, C and E), thiamin, folic acid, fiber, potassium, mineral salts, sugars, iron, iodine and calcium, making it very suitable for a vitamin enrichment and encourage healthy and balanced diet.
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Very yummy and very healthy indeed. Gotta have to reset my diet and start to eat something like this one. Lollo rosso lettuce can be grown via aquaponic system, wanna know more about it? click here
http://farmingeek.org/farming-how-to/how-to-start-aquaponic-farming/how-to-grow-lollo-rosso-lettuce-on-aquaponic-systems