Salad with Green Asparagus
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
30 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- mixed Lettuce (such as frisee lettuce, endive, oak leaf lettuce, radicchio, arugula)
- 200 grams Cherry tomatoes
- 100 grams Pecan (peeled)
- 250 grams green Asparagus
- 2 thin stalks Leeks
- 1 can Mandarin orange
- 1 Red onion
- 2 Tbsps Sesame seeds
- freshly ground peppers
- Walnut oil
- peppers
- balsamic vinegar
Preparation steps
1.
Rinse lettuce, trim and spin dry. Rinse tomatoes. Peel onion and cut into thin rings. Remove end from asparagus and blanch in a pot of boiling salted water for about 8-10 minutes. Drain and let cool. Rinse leeks, trim and cut into 2 cm (approximately 1 inch) long pieces. Blanch leeks in a pot of boiling salted water for 5 minutes. Drain and let cool. Drain mandarins.
2.
In a large salad bowl, mix lettuce, onion, tomato, asparagus, leeks, pecans and mandarin with 5 tablespoons oil, 3 tablespoons vinegar, mix well and season with salt and pepper. Toast sesame seeds over low heat in a dry skillet, sprinkle over salad, stir and serve immediately. Serve with fresh white bread and some cheese if desired.
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