SHAVED FENNEL, MUSHROOM AND PARMESAN SALAD
A tangle of paper-thin raw fennel and cremini mushrooms tossed with olive oil, lemon and shaved Parmesan cheese makes a cool and elegant salad. You can prepare the fennel, mushrooms and cheese a few hours ahead of time and refrigerate, covered, but don't dress the salad until you are ready to serve it-it gets softer as it sits, and you want the vegetables to retain some bite.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories appetizer
Time 20m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Use a fork to whisk the lemon juice and olive oil in a small bowl. Using a mandoline or sharp knife, slice the mushrooms very thin. Put them in a serving bowl and toss with about 2 teaspoons of the olive oil mixture.
- Chop enough of the fennel fronds to make about 2 tablespoons (reserve the rest for another use). Trim the tops and bottoms from the fennel bulbs and halve the bulbs; slice off most of the core (leaving on a bit helps keep the bulb intact). Using the mandoline, shave the fennel bulbs almost paper thin from the root to the top end right over the mushrooms. Add the fennel fronds and the lemon zest; season with salt and pepper. Toss to combine.
- Shave the Parmesan over the salad using a vegetable peeler. Drizzle the remaining olive oil mixture around the edge of the bowl and toss everything gently but well to combine.
MEAN CHEF'S SHAVED FENNEL, MUSHROOM AND PARMESAN SALAD
This recipe was posted by Mean Chef; I adopted it after he departed the site. Mean's comments: "Recipe from Alice Waters. A very tasty and striking salad - all white."
Provided by newspapergal
Categories Low Protein
Time 20m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Wash and trim fennel bulbs- cut away feathery tops and root end.
- Using a vegetable slicer or mandolin, slice the fennel as thinly as possible and scatter over a plate or platter.
- Drizzle with 2 tbl of olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Shave mushrooms into paper thin slices and scatter over fennel.
- Season with more salt and pepper, a squeeze of lemon juice and the remaining olive oil.
- With a cheese slicer or vegetable peeler, shave about 30 thin slivers of parmesan on top of the fennel and mushrooms.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 158.5, Fat 13.8, SaturatedFat 1.9, Sodium 56.3, Carbohydrate 9.7, Fiber 4.1, Sugar 0.3, Protein 2
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