Endive Salad Amongst Prosciutto Recipe

Growing upward I ate a greenish salad pretty much every black amongst dinner. In Italy, nosotros did the same, though it was served at the halt of the meal. These days, I uncovering it difficult to convince my other one-half to swallow salad. My solution is to brand brain dish salads. This ane uses Belgian endive as well as is tardily to brand for ane or a group. It has many delicious things added to a base of operations of endive as well as fennel, namely candied walnuts, fresh mozzarella as well as prosciutto.

Endive as well as fennel but appear to bring a natural affinity for ane another. Both are crisp, but fennel has a chewier  texture as well as a sweetness, spell endive is lighter as well as juicier as well as has a slightly bitter edge. You could purpose them to brand a uncomplicated side salad but this ane has lots of goodies to instruct inwards a brain dish. Use a Champagne vinaigrette or a Dijon mustard vinaigrette to clothes it. Or fifty-fifty but lemon juice as well as extra virgin olive oil.

One of the tricks to this salad is that ane sparse piece of prosciutto pulled into shreds adds loads of flavor. If you lot bring jamon de Bellota, past times all agency purpose it. That's what I originally used inwards this salad. Just hold upward certain to add together it at the really terminal minute. Make extra candied walnuts, they are terrific for snacking.

Endive Salad amongst Prosciutto
One serving

1 Belgian endive, sliced
1/4 loving cup thinly sliced fresh fennel
1/4 loving cup diced fresh mozzarella
1 piece prosciutto, shredded into almost v sparse strips
two Tablespoons walnuts, coarsely chopped
1/4 teaspoon sugar
Pinch salt
Vinaigrette

Make the candied walnuts past times really gently heating the walnuts, saccharide as well as tabular array salt inwards a non-stick skillet until the saccharide melts as well as the walnuts toast. Swirl the pan as well as hence the saccharide sticks to the nuts. Set aside as well as allow cool spell assembling the salad.

In a salad bowl toss the endive as well as fennel amongst a dyad tablespoons of dressing. Place the salad on a plate as well as peak amongst the mozzarella, walnuts as well as the prosciutto.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: My thank you lot to California Endive Farms for providing me amongst a generous sample of endive to use. I too wrote almost endive on Recipe.com. 
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