Pink Radicchio Lettuce

It was love at first sight when I saw the color of this lettuce in the vegetable display in my local greengrocer. The beautiful Pink Radicchio lettuce needs nothing more than a slightly sweet vinaigrette to balance the bitterness of the lettuce leaves. I served it with a fruity mandarin-yuzu and rapeseed oil dressing sprinkled with pink pepper.

 

Ingredients | Serves 4

4

Small pink radicchio lettuce

50 cl

Mandarin juice

2 Tsp

Yuzu juice

100 cl

Rapeseed oil

 

Salt

 

Fresh ground pink pepper

 

Small leaves to decorate

 

Preparation
  1. Wash the whole lettuce under cold water. Remove the larger outer leafes. Carefully shake off the water.

  2. Cut away the bottom part with the core of the lettuce keeping the leafes together.

  3. Arrange the the lettuce in deep plates so they look like flowers.

  4. Whisk the ingredients for the salad dressing together and spoon over the lettuce.

  5. Decorate with small green leafes and sprinkle with fresh ground pink pepper.