Balsamic radicchio, grape and manchego salad

Name: Balsamic radicchio, grape and manchego salad
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 6-8 as a side dish
Cuisine: Modern Australian
Ingredients: 3 tbsp quality balsamic glaze; juice of ½ lemon; 5 tbsp olive oil

Katrina Meynink

December 6, 2018

Radicchio and red grapes showered in manchego snow.Katrina Meynink

easyTime:< 30 minsServes:6-8 as a side dish

Hands-down one of the quickest salads you'll put together this Christmas and one of the tastiest. An excellent marriage of crunch and sweet and salt and soft, all covered in manchego cheese snow.

Ingredients

Dressing

3 tbsp quality balsamic glaze
juice of ½ lemon
5 tbsp olive oil

Salad

150g radicchio leaves
1½ cups red grapes, halved
½ red onion, finely sliced on a mandolin
arils of ½ pomegranate
salt and pepper to season
80g-100g manchego

Method

1. Whisk the dressing ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
2. Spread the radicchio leaves on a large serving platter. Top with cut grapes, onion and pomegranate arils. Season generously with salt and pepper.
3. Spoon over the dressing, enough to coat the salad here and there in pockets of balsamic and oil.
4. Using a microplane, grate the manchego generously over the salad and serve immediately.
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