Chopped Kitchen Sink Salad with Yogurt Dressing & Bottarga
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Ingredients
- 1clove garlic
- 1/4cup mint leaves
- 3/4cup thick Greek yogurt or labne
- Salt
- 2tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 3tablespoons estate-bottled extra-virgin olive oil
- 1pound green beans, trimmed if you want
- 2small Persian cucumbers
- 1medium fennel bulb
- 2scallions, white and light green parts, sliced on the bias
- 4tablespoons freshly grated bottarga (I only use grey mullet bottarga as I have stopped eating bluefin tuna out of concern for the long term survival of the fish, so that includes bottarga made from tuna)
Directions
Prepare the dressing by finely mincing the garlic and mint leaves and stirring into the Greek yogurt. Add a pinch of salt and stir in the vinegar and olive oil. You should have a slightly runny dressing capable of easily dressing the salad. If it's not quite thin enough, add a teaspoon or so of water but check and adjust the salt if you do that.
Blanch the green beans in abundantly salted boiling water just until they turn bright green. Drain and spread in a single layer on a plate or tray to cool. Cut the fennel in half and remove the core, then slice into 1/2-inch pieces. Peel and cut the cucumber into 1/2-inch half-moons. Mix all the vegetables together with the scallions and toss with the dressing. Season with a pinch of salt (go easy because the bottarga is on the salty side) and black pepper, and then grate the bottarga over the salad on a microplane. Serve and eat.
Source: https://food52.com/recipes/56351-chopped-kitchen-sink-salad-with-yogurt-dressing-bottarga