Here’s a crisp wintery salad that’s the perfect accompaniment to our Zweibelkuchen recipe. This salad is adorned with buttery green olives, salty parmesan cheese, and crunchy garlicky breadcrumbs to elevate it to out-of-this-world!
What we like best about radicchio, besides its color and its great bitter flavor is that it keeps really well in the fridge. If you’ve left it too long, don’t worry: just plop it into an ice bath to refresh, and it’s good as new.
Ingredients
1 head radicchio, rinsed, dried and torn into pretty chunks
¼ cup olive oil
juice of ½ a lemon
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
¾ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 handful of green olives, hand-torn
1 clove garlic
1 pat of butter
½ cup pankoInstructions
Make the salad dressing by either whizzing in the blender or whisking by hand: the oil, lemon, mustard. Dress the radicchio, scatter with almost all the parmesan (save a little for garnish), and mix together until the radicchio is deliciously coated. Feel free to sample a leaf or two to make sure.
Heat the butter in a skillet until melted and, using a Microplane, quickly grate in a clove of garlic. Add the panko and stir until toasted. Once again, scatter all but a little bit over the salad and mix.
Place a pretty pile of salad on each plate and adorn with the olives and the remaining breadcrumbs and cheese.
