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Salad Of Mache and Beets

Type: Vegetables
Courses: Salads
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

2 tablespoons 30mlShallots - finely chopped
2 tablespoons 30mlRed-wine vinegar
2 tablespoons 30mlCranberry juice cocktail - or water
1 tablespoon 15mlWhole-grain mustard
2 tablespoons 30mlExtra virgin olive oil
  Salt and pepper - to taste
6   Cooked beets - peeled, cut into (small) thin sticks
1   Hard-cooked egg - peeled
9 cups 562g / 19ozMache - (lamb's lettuce), or Boston lettuce

Recipe Instructions

In small bowl, whisk together shallots, vinegar, cranberry juice or water, and mustard. Slowly whisk in olive oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour half of the dressing into a separate bowl and set aside.

Marinate beets in the remaining dressing for at least 1 hour and up to 6 hours.

Just before serving, use a rubber spatula to pres egg through a coarse strainer into a small bowl. Toss the reserved dressing with the lettuce.

Arrange on 6 salad plates. Divide the marinated beets over the lettuce and garnish with some of the sieved egg and black pepper.

Source:
Lori Varela

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