Starters & Light meals
Mixed salad greens
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This mixed green salad with pomegranate dressing provides a good balance when served with richer dishes like duck.
Ingredients
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- For the salad use any mix of greens (400 g in total)
- watercress
- baby spinach
- rocket
- mini asparagus
- sugar snap peas
- basil
- baby butter lettuce
- For the pomegranate dressing:
- ¼ cup fresh or cold-pressed pomegranate juice
- 2 t red wine vinegar
- 1 t honey
- a good pinch pink salt
- ½ cup olive oil
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Method
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1. Turn the greens onto a large platter.
2. To make the dressing, whisk together the pomegranate juice, vinegar, honey and salt. Gradually whisk in the olive oil. Add a twist or two of pepper. Taste to check the seasoning and sweet-sour balance.
3. Gently mix the greens with the dressing at the table or just before serving.
Photograph: Toby Murphy
Production: Phillippa Cheifitz
Food assistant: Kate Ferreira
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