Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ruby Salad


2 small beets
1 medium red onion
radicchio (1 head)
seeds from 1 pomegranate
2 blood oranges or 1 ruby grapefruit, supremed

Pomegranate vinaigrette ingredients:
3 tablespoons pomegranate molasses / reduced pomegranate juice / pomegranate syrup
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
salt
pepper

Wash, trim, and place beets onto foil squares, and top each with a teaspoon or so of olive oil, plus some salt and pepper; wrap in the foil and roast at 400°F for about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.

Peel and halve red onion, then slice crosswise. Put about 1/8 of the thin semicircular onion slices into a small bowl of cool salted water.

When beets are cool, peel them, and cut them into bite-size wedges (each wedge about 1/8 of each beet).

Rinse and pat dry radicchio. Quarter, then slice crosswise. Arrange in platter.
Top radicchio with beets. Top radicchio and beets with citrus segments.

Drain onion slices and scatter them over the salad. Scatter pomegranate seeds atop the salad.

Whisk vinaigrette ingredients and add salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle vinaigrette over salad.

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