Green Salad with Pears and Ricotta Salata
And A Lemon And Shallot Vinaigrette
What you will need
1 head butter lettuce
1 shallot
1 lemon
Black pepper
2 pears
1 chunk of ricotta salata
Salt
Olive oil
How to cook
1
Gently split apart the greens. Wash and dry.
2
Brunoise the shallots. To do that, slice the tip off each shallot. Peel and slice in half through the root tip.
3
Line up the halves. Hatch the shallot perpendicular to the root. As though slicing a fine checkerboard accross the sliced face of the shallot.
4
Now you can chop parallel to the root tip and you end up with little tiny cubes of shallot.
5
In abowl, combine the shallots with the juice of a large lemon. Crack some black pepper in there too. Let that sit for awhile.
6
Halve the pears.
7
Slice out the stem. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon.
8
Line up the halves and slice.
9
Toss pears and greens with a little salt and pepper. Grate in some ricotta salatta.
10
Toss in the shallot and lemon. Pour in a little olive oil. Toss and taste. Serve with a little grated ricotta on top.
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