Salad Fasting
Green salad
The first salad of the Macedonian spring: lettuce, spring onions and whatever green has come up.
Recipe from Туѓино Јабано
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- —
- Total
- 15 min
- Fasting
- Suitable
Ingredients 10 ingredients
Method
- Wash the leaves in a bowl of cold water and lift them out by hand rather than pouring the water off, so the grit stays at the bottom. Dry them well in a cloth.
- Tear the lettuce into rough pieces by hand rather than cutting it; cut edges brown within the hour.
- Slice the spring onions into rings, green parts included, and cut the radishes thin.
- Chop the sorrel and parsley coarsely and add them. Sorrel is sour, so a handful is plenty.
- Dissolve the salt in the vinegar in a small bowl, then whisk in the oil. Salt will not dissolve in oil.
- Dress the salad at the table, immediately before eating; a dressed green salad is finished in twenty minutes.
- Outside a fast, crumble sirenje over the top once the salad is dressed.
If you cannot find it
Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.
- Young sorrel
- Baby spinach with an extra squeeze of lemon to put the sourness back
- Marula lettuce
- Butterhead or little gem — something crisp rather than floppy
- Sirenje
- A firm feta, drained and crumbled
