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Butter Lettuce Salad With Oranges And Red Onion Dressing

At the restaurant, they use Champagne in the salad dressing. We've simplified it with white wine vinegar, but if you've got a bottle of the bubbly open, feel free to substitute.

Courses: Salads
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

3/4 cup 177mlOlive oil
1/4 cup 59mlWhite wine vinegar
2 teaspoons 10mlGrated orange peel
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlFrozen orange juice concentrate - thawed
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1/2   Red onion - very thinly sliced
1   Butter lettuce - leaves coarsely torn
  = (abt 8 cups)
2   Oranges - peel and white (large)
  Pith removed, thinly sliced into rounds

Recipe Instructions

Whisk oil, vinegar, orange peel, and juice concentrate in medium bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Add onion; marinate 30 minutes, stirring often.

Divide lettuce among 4 plates. Top with orange slices. Ladle dressing with onion over.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
Bon Appetit, September 2002

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