Category:
Warm Salad

Garlic Flower and Snow Pea Salad

Ingredients:

radicchio, endive or escarole
pignoli (pine nuts)
garlic stipes
sea salt
snow peas
balsamic vinegar
ground sesame seeds
cold brown rice

Take several handfuls of radicchio, endive or escarole, or other greens to your taste. Wash very thouroughly and refrigerate in a damp towel for an hour or two before serving time.
Put two tablespoons of pignoli (pine nuts) in one layer in a shallow pan and toast under the salamander, shaking the pan once to turn the nuts, for just under a minute or long enough for them to begin showing some brown colouration. Take them from the hot pan immediately, or they will keep on roasting themselves. Allow to cool.
Take six or eight garlic stipes, remove any woody lower parts, trim off all but the base of the flower if this hasn't been done already, and chop into 3cm. lengths.
Cook these in just enough boiling water to cover them, under a lid, until they are tender; ten minutes or so.
Remove the garlic stalks from the pot with a slotted spoon.
Add a quarter teaspoon of sea salt to the liquid remaining in the pot and add two big handfuls of snow peas, whole if they are small; otherwise break each one in half, which will let you know if the larger pods have 'strings' which must be removed.
Set over high heat and steam, covered, shaking or turning the contents over for two minutes or so, or until the peas are just cooked. Only add more water if you must.
Remove the snow peas from the cooking liquor and keep them handy.
Add three tablespoons of ground sesame seeds to the pot, and bring to the boil, stirring. Simmer for three minutes. Add two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, and remove from the fire. Allow to cool for a few moments, it will thicken somewhat.
Mix the garlic stipes and the peas into the sesame paste.
Cut the leaves of your greens across into very fine strips; fold these into the mixture.
Add two servings of cold brown rice cooked at least one day previously. Add the toasted pignoli.
Mix gently but well and serve immediately.

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