Best Orange And Grapefruit Salad With Coriander And Black Olives Recipes
SICILIAN-STYLE CITRUS SALAD
Winter is the season when many kinds of citrus fruits suddenly appear. For this savory fruit salad, a mixture of navel, blood and Cara Cara oranges and a small grapefruit make a colorful display. It's fine to use just one kind of orange, blood oranges being the classic example. Thinly sliced fennel, celery and red onion add a tasty bit of crunch. The salad is dressed assertively with oil and vinegar, and scattered with olives and flaky sea salt.
Provided by David Tanis
Categories brunch, dinner, easy, lunch, salads and dressings, appetizer, side dish
Time 30m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Make the vinaigrette: Whisk together olive oil and vinegar in a small bowl. Season with salt and pepper and set aside. It should be tart but not over-vinegary. Taste and add a little more olive oil if necessary.
- To peel the citrus fruit, use a small serrated knife. First, cut off a thin slice of peel from the top and bottom of the orange, so it can sit flat and securely on the cutting board. Use a sawing motion to take off the peel, cutting from top to bottom, following the curve of the fruit. Remove only the peel and white pith, not the flesh of the orange. It should now be perfectly spherical and naked. Peel remaining oranges and grapefruit in this fashion.
- Carefully slice peeled citrus crosswise. Arrange slices on a large serving platter in a random pattern, letting them overlap a bit here and there. Scatter onion, fennel and celery over top. Dot the surface with olives. Surround with salad leaves, if using.
- Whisk vinaigrette, and spoon evenly over the salad. Sprinkle lightly with flaky salt and serve.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 186, UnsaturatedFat 7 grams, Carbohydrate 28 grams, Fat 9 grams, Fiber 6 grams, Protein 3 grams, SaturatedFat 1 gram, Sodium 653 milligrams, Sugar 20 grams
ORANGE AND OLIVE SALAD
I wanted to be sure to include a few words about fruit salads-not sweet fruit cocktails in heavy syrup, but savory salads made like other composed salads. These may consist of fresh fruit alone, or fresh fruit combined with lettuces or other salad greens, with nuts and cheese often added for richness and texture. When there are no greens available and I desperately want something fresh, fruit salads are refreshing alternatives, either at the beginning or the end of a meal. Figs, apples, pears, pomegranates, persimmons, and almost all of the citrus fruits make good salads, with or without greens. All these fruits of fall and winter have an affinity for hearty chicories such as escarole, radicchio, and curly endive. Among my favorite fruit salads are an orange salad with black olives; avocado slices and grapefruit sections; persimmons or Asian pears with nuts and balsamic vinegar; and orange slices with marinated beets. Oranges and other citrus fruits need to be peeled and sectioned for a salad. When skinning the fruit, you want to remove all the outer peel and the membranes that enclose the sections, exposing the juicy fruit inside. You will need a small, sharp knife to do this. First, slice off the top and bottom of each fruit, slicing deeply enough to expose the inner flesh. Then, position your knife blade at the top where the fruit and peel meet, and carefully cut down following the contours of the fruit. Continue around the fruit, cutting from top to bottom, rotating the orange, until all the peel and membrane is removed. Trim away any remaining white bits of membrane. You can then slice the orange crosswise or cut between the membranes to free the individual sections. Apples and pears can be peeled or not, but to avoid oxidation, which turns the cut surfaces brown, they should be prepared just before serving. Persimmons must be peeled; this can be done in advance, but keep them covered so they don't dry out. Fruit salads are usually dressed very simply, sometimes with nothing more than a drizzle of olive oil or vinegar, or with a vinaigrette made of some citrus juice and a touch of vinegar, a little chopped shallot, salt, pepper, and olive oil.
Yield makes 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Remove the peel and membrane, exposing the juicy flesh, of: 4 small or 3 medium oranges.
- Slice into 1/4-inch-thick round pinwheels and arrange them on a plate. Cut in half lengthwise, peel, and slice thin: 1 small red onion.
- Onion slices cut horizontally are prettier than slices cut lengthwise. If the onions are particularly strong, soak them in ice water for 5 to 10 minutes. Drain them well before adding to the salad. Make a vinaigrette. Mix together: 2 tablespoons orange juice, 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar, Salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
- Whisk in: 2 tablespoons olive oil.
- Taste and adjust with more salt and vinegar as needed. Scatter the onion slices over the oranges and spoon the vinaigrette over. Garnish with: Small black olives (4 or 5 per person).
- I prefer to serve the olives unpitted to preserve their integrity and beauty, but be sure to tell your friends so they know the pits are there. Use niçoise olives if you can find them, but any briny black olive will do (large ones can be coarsely chopped, if you like).
GRAPEFRUIT, ORANGE AND AVOCADO SALAD
This is a variation of a delicious salad my late FIL used to make. So refreshing and good with many dishes...grilled fish, roasted chicken to name a couple. Use my Recipe #224936 if you don't have your own ready in the fridge. Kids love this salad, too!
Provided by Penny Stettinius
Categories Oranges
Time 19m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Peel the oranges and grapefruits. I use a sharp knife and cut the ends off 1st, then cut the skin off with the pith.
- Cut into sections.
- Place the lettuce leaves into a serving bowl/platter.
- Peel and slice the avocados.
- Place the citrus and avocado on top of the lettuce and drizzle with a vinaigrette.
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