Bountiful Black Olive Leeks and Lemon Salad
From mystic_river1 15 years ago
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- Serves 6
Deliciouso! A pretty salad to compliment your main dish. For family or company, it will be a hit. Fresh and tasty. from Taste of Italy magazine; recipe by Valentina Harris
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups black olives, pitted and coarsely chopped shopping list
- 4 medium-sized leeks, washed, green sections discarded, and very thinly sliced shopping list
- 2 very thin-skinned unwaxed lemons, washed and dried shopping list
- 4 tbsp olive oil shopping list
- sea salt and freshly milled black pepper shopping list
- 2-4 tbsp chopped fresh parsley shopping list
- extra-virgin olive oil to taste shopping list
- crusty bread for serving shopping list
How to make it
- Put the olives into a bowl together with the leeks.
- Top and tail the lemons and discard the end sections.
- Slice the lemons very finely, then quarter all the slices.
- Remove any pips.
- Add the lemon segments, skin included, to the salad.
- Stir in enough olive oil to make everything shiny.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste, then mix in the parsley.
- Leave to stand for about 10 minutes to allow the oil to soak into the lemons.
- Serve with plenty of bread for soaking up the delicious juice.
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Lovely recipe :+D FIVE!
chefelaine
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Thank you for finding this wonderful recipe I can tel the scent from the lemons will entice me to savor this colorful olive salad.
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Yumola, this sounds fabulous. High 5 my friend.
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