Orange And Onion Salad With Toasted Cumin
From jimrug1 16 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 6
This Salad and/or Variations of it has been on the table at family get togethers ever since I can remember. It is a very simple dish but takes a little time to prepare and present properly. The ingredients are simple but the flavor combination is surprisingly comlex.
Ingredients
- 6 oranges shopping list
- 2 red onions sliced thinly in rounds shopping list
- 1 1/2 Tbls cumin seeds toasted shopping list
- 1 1/2 Tsps coarse black pepper shopping list
- 1 1/2 Tbls chopped mint (Mediterranean) shopping list
- 6 Tbls Good extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- salt to taste shopping list
- Fresh mint sprigs and Greek olives to Serve shopping list
How to make it
- Working over a bowl to catch juice, Slice the Oranges thinly. Holding each slice over the bowl, cut around the slice with a sissors or paring knive to remove the rind. Each slice should end up as a rindless disk.
- Dry toast the cumin seeds until you can see light wifts of smoke coming from the pan. Try to sprinkle on the salad layers when the seeds are as hot as you can tolerate them.
- Arrainge the Onion and Orange slices in layers in a shallow dish. Sprinkle each layer with toasted Cumin seeds, mint, black pepper, Olive Oil, and Salt to taste.
- Pour the Orange Juice left over from the slicing over the finished salad. Leave the salad in a cool place to marinade in for about 2 hours. (It is important to leave it this long but not too much longer before serving.)
- Just before serving scatter the salad with the Mint Sprigs and Greek Olives.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
I love it...will be on my table soon. Thanks for posting. Joymarie
mystic_river1
in Bradenton loved it
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I'll bet this is very flavorful Jim. Thanks for the post. I'll have to try this one soon. I've seen something like this only with the addition of avocado slices. Would love a plate of this now.
grandmommy
in Nashville loved it
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I'll be trying this too. It sounds so fresh and lovely. Thanks, Jim...
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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