White truffle series 4: Garlic bread uni and salad

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This is another quick uni and white truffle combination that I love. Super easy to put together because you’re gonna be using ready-made garlic bread!

Just grab your favourite brand of garlic bread, pop it into the oven until its nice and hot and crispy on the outside and then top it off with a heaping mountain of golden orange sea urchin roe (make sure it is fresh uni). Finish it off with a sprinkling of chopped chives and fragrant slivers of white truffle. The garlic bread should have enough salt content, but you can add some fleur de sel on top if you wish.

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And then there’s salad. I put together a salad of baby spinach leaves, radish, cherry tomatoes, a handful of dried blueberries, some ikura/salmon roe (personally I love ikura but you can leave this out if you think it’s weird), shaved parmigiano reggiano cheese and white truffle on the top. Dressed it lightly with my favourite dressing; a simple honey, lemon and mayo mixture. I can’t remember now if I added any truffle oil to this or not. Good time to try making this again when I get hold of some truffles!

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Egg and Bacon Salad with honey mayo mustard dressing

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I saw this in one of Nigella Lawson’s cookbooks and had to make it! I love green salads with eggs. Caesar salads for one =p. The recipe in Nigella’s book calls for mustard, vinegar and worcestershire sauce for the dressing but I used honey, mayonnaise and Dijon mustard. It was as I liked it 😉 sweetish sour with a slight kick from the mustard.

Ingredients (Serves 4 as a starter, or Serves 2 as a full meal)

1. 4 eggs
2. 1 head escarole or frisee (I used Romaine lettuce, you can use other leaves of your preference)
3. 1 teaspoon garlic oil
4. 200g smoked lardons or smoked streaky bacon cut into chunks (I just cut up some sliced bacon)
5. small bunch of flat-leaf parsley, chopped
6. For the dressing: 1 tsp Dijon mustard, 4 tsp cider vinegar, a dash of Worcestershire sauce
7. Parmesan cheese (Optional)
8. 1 Chicken fillet (Optional)

Instructions

1. Put the eggs into a saucepan of water, bring to the boil, let boil for 1 minute, then turn off the heat and let the eggs sit in the pan for 10 minutes (the egg would come out still golden in the centre and not hard boiled all the way, and the whites would be silkier).
2. Wash, drain and tear the salad leaves into bite sized pieces and place it into a bowl.
3. Heat the garlic oil in a frying pan and fry the lardons/bacon until crisp.
4. Drain the water from the egg pan and run cold water on the eggs. Once they are cool to the touch, peel them.
5. Transfer the lardons/bacon with a slotted spatula onto some sheets of kitchen roll.
6. Add Dijon mustard to the juices in the bacon pan and whisk to mix, then add the vinegar and a dash of Worcestershire sauce, whisk again and pour this over the salad leaves, tossing to mix. (Here, I just mixed honey, Dijon mustard and mayonnaise together until I liked the taste. No extra bacon oil here)
7. Now add the bacon to the salad and toss again. Then quarter the eggs and add them along with the chopped parsley, before giving the whole salad a gentle mix to combine.
8. If you’re adding chicken, brush the chicken with olive oil, then sprinkle salt, pepper other herbs of your choice. Place in a baking tray and bake at 190 degrees celsius and roast for 15-25 minutes depending on the breast size until the juices run clear. Remove from oven, let it rest for 15 mins before slicing/shredding to add into the salad

Result… a very filling and satisfying salad! Omit bacon and cheese to make it healthier 😉