Fennel and Radish Salad with Lemon and Olive Oil
Article by: Drizzle and Dip
It’s a Jamie Oliver recipe and there are a few things you need to do to ensure its a success:
Slice the vegetables as thinly as you can. If you want to take ALL the effort out the prep and to make it in under 5 minutes, use a food processor with a very fine slice setting. I set my Breville Whizz Pro. Alternatively use a mandolin.
To make the vegetables extra crunchy, soak them in a bowl of ice-cold water with ice cubes added. This transforms them into the crispest texture that will have you crunching your way through this salad with much glee. Do all of this immediately before you want to serve this salad.
I also whip out the finest extra virgin olive oil I have available. Because it is such an important component of this salad you really want to use the best.
You are basically working on a ratio of 2:1 fennel to radish and then add the dressing ingredients to your taste. You may want it more lemony or you may like more salt. I only use Maldon salt. It is by far my favourite salt ever.
I now also use a little of the fennel stalk above the bulb. The light green part. When sliced finely its delicious. I also like to finely chop up a small handful of the leaves to decorate and flavour my salad.
Recipe – serves 4 (adapted from Jamie Oliver)
Ingredients:
- 1 fennel bulb (white and light green parts only)
- 150g radishes
- 2 T lemon juice (1 lemon more or less)
- 5 T olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Maldon salt
- lots of freshly ground black pepper
