Crunchy salad

A nice fresh salad that goes well with many dishes. This is just a basic recipe, be bold, experiment with different ingredients.

Ingredients

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• For the salad
• ½ an iceberg lettuce
• A handful of alternative salad leaves leaves: rocket, spinach, radicchio, frisée (curly endive), chicory etc.
• 4 spring onions, chopped on the diagonal
• ¼ of a cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced - a food processor is good for this
• 1 red pepper, de-seeded and thinly sliced
• For the dressing
• 1 tablespoon garlic olive oil
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin oilve oil
• 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
• Pinch of salt

Method

1. Mix all the salad ingredients together in a large serving bowl
2. Chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes if you have time
3. Whisk up the dressing in a separate bowl
4. Drizzle the dressing over the salad

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