Italian Salads Recipes - Summer Party Salad (Insalata di Festa Estiva) Recipe

Ingredients 

• 1 small radicchio head

• 1/2 curly endive (frisee lettuce)

• 1/2 lollo rosso

• 60 ml/4 tbsp olive oil

• Grated rind and juice of 1 lime

• 5 ml/1 tsp sugar

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

• 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander (cilantro)

• 100 g/4 oz/1 cup walnut pieces

• 225 g/8 oz button mushrooms, sliced

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Method:

1. Tear all the salad leaves into small pieces. Arrange in a bowl.

2. Blend the olive oil with the lime, sugar, salt and pepper and stir in the coriander.

3. Stir in the walnut pieces and add the mushroom slices.

4. Allow to stand for 5 minutes then spoon over the leaves.