Escarole Salad With Pear Slices Recipes

Steps:

• In small jar with tight-fitting lid, shake dressing ingredients. Set aside.
• Arrange escarole on 6 individual salad plates. Thinly slice pears; arrange slices over lettuce. Sprinkle hazelnuts over salads; drizzle with dressing. Serve immediately.

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• Make lemon-basil oil:
• Mix 1/3 cup olive oil, a strip of lemon zest, 8 torn basil leaves and a pinch of salt; infuse 2 hours. Soak 1/2 thinly sliced red onion in water for 10 minutes to mellow the bite. When ready to serve, toss 1 head chopped escarole, the onion slices, 2 sliced celery stalks, 3/4 cup chopped green olives and a few tablespoons olive juice, 2 segmented lemons and 1/4 cup each toasted pine nuts and golden raisins in a serving bowl. Discard the zest from the infused oil, drizzle over the salad and season with salt and pepper.

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• Whisk together the honey, whole grain mustard, lemon juice, and then stream in the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and toss with the escarole.

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• In a small bowl, whisk together mustard and red-wine vinegar. Slowly whisk in the olive oil; season with salt and pepper. Set vinaigrette aside.
• Heat the broiler. Toast the bread slices until golden brown on both sides, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Set toast aside.
• Separate the escarole leaves, and rinse well under cold running water; pat dry. Roughly chop leaves, and transfer to a large bowl.
• Cut the pear in half lengthwise; using a melon baller, remove core, seeds, and stem. Thinly slice pear halves lengthwise; add to bowl.
• Add celery pieces, and drizzle the vinaigrette over the salad. Toss gently to combine. Divide among four salad plates; serve with toast.

Steps:

• Place escarole and butter lettuce in a large salad bowl.
• Drain artichokes reserving 1 tablespoon of the marinade. Place it into blender. Add the dressing ingredients to the blender and blend till smooth.
• Season to your likings by adding more vinegar or seasonings. chill while preparing salad.
• Toss salad with artichoke hearts, onion slices and pear slices.
• Top with cherries and toasted pine nuts.
• Cool and scatter on salad.
• Placed sliced goat cheese on salad. Or crumble the cheese over salad.
• Pour over salad and enjoy.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees with 1 rack in the middle position and 1 rack immediately below it. Toss radicchio and escarole with 2 teaspoons oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Arrange in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet.
• Toss pears with 1 teaspoon oil, 2 teaspoonsthyme, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Arrange in a single layer on another rimmed baking sheet.
• Roast radicchio mixture on bottom rackuntil tender, about 25 minutes, and pears onmiddle rack until tender, about 40 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in a mediumsaucepan. Add barley. Simmer, covered,until tender, 22 to 25 minutes.
• Whisk vinegar with remaining tablespoon oil and teaspoon thyme, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in large bowl. Drain barley, stir into vinaigrette.
• Mound Parmesan onto a baking sheetlined with parchment or a nonstick bakingmat, and spread into a 6-inch circle.
• Transfer radicchio-escarole mixture tobowl with barley. Cover with plastic wrap tokeep warm and to allow radicchio to wilt.As pears continue to cook, bake Parmesanon bottom oven rack until deep goldenbrown, 9 to 11 minutes.
• Toss pears with barley. Divide salad among4 plates. Break Parmesan crisp into pieces;place on top of each salad. Serve warm.

Steps:

• Combine the escarole and radicchio in a large salad bowl. Toss in the dates.
• In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the lemon juice, mustard, grated Parmesan cheese, olive oil, and black pepper. Shake well to combine. Pour over the salad and toss.
• Grate more Parmesan on top and serve.