Glass Salad Spinner
$169.00
Shaved Fennel and Radicchio Salad
with Pecorino, Mint, Orange and Honey Chardonnay Dressing
ABOUT RECIPE
Chef Danielle Alvarez walks you through how to make her favourite salad, shaved fennel and radicchio salad with a pecorino, mind, orange and honey chardonnay dressing: “It’s sweet, salty, a little bit tangy and little bit bitter for the radicchio, but all in all together it balances beautifully. I think you’re going to love it!”
Ingredients
Salad
- 400g radicchio, leaves separated and torn
- 1 head fennel, finely shaved on a mandolin
- 2 oranges, peeled
- 50g pecorino cheese
- ½ cup pitted Castelvetrano green olives, torn in half
- ¼ cup loosely packed fresh mint leaves
Honey Chardonnay Dressing
- 1 small shallot (approx. 30 g), peeled and diced very small
- 3 Tbls. chardonnay vinegar
- 2 tsp. honey
- 1 Tbls. Dijon mustard
- ¼ cup Extra virgin olive oil
- Salt & pepper
Method
- Combine the shallot and vinegar with a pinch of salt in a small mixing bowl.
- Add in the honey, mustard and some black pepper, whisk to combine. While whisking, slowly stream in the olive oil so the dressing stays somewhat emulsified.
- Fill your OXO salad spinner with ice water.
- Place the radicchio in the basket of the spinner and place that inside the ice water to remove bitterness. Leave for around 4 minutes.
- Drain water and spin the salad spinner to dry the radicchio.
- Once dry, add your radicchio back into the bowl.
- Slice the fennel thinly and carefully on your mandoline and add to your bowl.
- Zest the oranges before
peeling with a paring knife.
Cut the oranges into slices
about 1cm thick. Add them to
your bowl. - Use a vegetable peeler to peel shavings of the pecorino into your salad.
- Add in pitted olives, the mint leaves and for an extra hint of flavour, orange zest.
- Toss everything with the dressing and a good pinch of salt. Enjoy!
Tips & Tricks
This is a little trick I like to do when using Radicchio because it can be a little bitter, especially if you’re using it out of season. I like to soak it in a little bit of ice water – it just pulls all that bitterness out of it and leave you with that beautiful, crunchy texture. You can use the OXO Salad Spinner to make this simple, fill the bowl with the ice water and place the Radicchio into the basket. Once it’s soaked enough you can simply pour out the water.
