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Winter Citrus Salad with Currants and Goat Cheese


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  • Author: Alisha Randell
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 2-4 1x

Description

A bright citrus salad to warm up even the gloomiest of winter days.


Ingredients

Scale
  • For the salad
  • 3 heads of frisée lettuce, about 12 ounces
  • 2 ounces (56.7 g) radish sprouts
  • 1 large ruby red grapefruit, sectioned
  • 6 tangerines, sliced in wheels
  • 2 avocados, sliced
  • 2 red pears, julienne sliced
  • 34 ounces (85113.5 g) lucques olives
  • or other non salt brine version)
  • 5 ounces red currants
  • 3 ounces (85 g) fresh goat cheese with herbs
  • For the emulsion/dressing
  • For the pineapple emulsion
  • 1/2 cup (136.5 ml) pineapple juice
  • 2 tablespoons (28 g) avacado honey
  • 1/2 cup (136.5 ml) avocado oil
  • Emulsifying blender, blender or food processor
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  1. For the salad:
  2. You will want to begin by laying out you frisée around. the edges of a platter or serving dish. Place radish sprouts sporadically around the dish or spread out on the center of the platter.
  3. Then prepare your citrus by slicing the tangerines into wheels, then removing the skin and as much of the white pith as possible.
  4. For the grapefruit I sectioned them, first by peeling the fruit, then dividing into individual sections then removing the thin skin membrain.
  5. Now prepare the julianne style pear slices by using a julianne slicer or simply cut into thin long strips.
  6. Then place remaining ingredients on top and around your citrus in any order you choose.
  7. For the emulsion/dressing:
  8. Add pineapple juice to a small bowel or into a blender. Add honey
  9. an mix until incorporated. Now drizzle oil very slowly until fully incorporated.

Notes

Serve dressed or with emulsion on the side.
Serves 2 main or 4 as sides

  • Prep Time: 30 mins