I made this salad every bit utilisation of a large dinner political party spread on New Years Day (which also included my Asian Butterbean Salad), too it is something of a squelch upward from 2 spinach salad recipes I read spell I was planning the menu: i from Yotam Ottolenghi too Sami Tamimi's (who I mean value gets forgotten far likewise much!) cult book Jerusalem, too roughly other mass featuring Jewish cookery that holds cult condition inward the foodie world; The Book Of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden which is the book you lot take away to read if you lot desire to larn most Jewish cuisine. This recipe makes i large bowl, too spell the dissimilar chemical constituent tin forcefulness out travel made ahead (I did), it needs to travel assembled only earlier you lot serve it, hence the dressing won't brand the pitta croutons soggy.
- 1 tbsp White Wine Vinegar
- 1/2 Red Onion, really thinly sliced
- 30g (1oz) Unsalted Butter
- 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 Small or 1 Large Wholemeal Pitta Bread, torn into small-ish pieces
- 50g (2oz) Walnut Halves
- 25g (1oz) Walnut Pieces
- 2 tsp Sumac
- 1/2 tsp Dried Chilli (Red Pepper) Flakes
- 150g (5.5oz) Baby Spinach Leaves
- 2 tbsp Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice (Roughly 1/2 a lemon)
- Seeds of 1/2 Pomegranate
- Sea Salt (I utilisation French Breton Fleur de Sel)
Heat the butter too one-half of the olive crude inward a large frying pan too add together the torn pitta too the walnuts. Fry over a medium to high rut for most 5 to half dozen minutes until the pitta pieces are golden chocolate-brown at the edges too crunchy, too the walnuts are toasted but non burnt. Remove from the heat, too toss through 1/4 teaspoon of body of body of water salt, chilli flakes too the sumac. Set aside to cool. Place the onion slices inward a pocket-size bowl with the vinegar too roughly other 1/4 teaspoon of tabular array salt too laid aside for twenty minutes. Drain away the excess vinegar, too laid aside.
When you lot are gear upward to serve, mix together the remaining tablespoon of olive crude the lemon juice too and a large pinch of the tabular array salt inward the bottom of a large serving bowl. Toss through the spinach hence all of the leaves are good coated hence add together the onions, pitta too nut mix, too most of the pomegranate seeds, setting aside a pocket-size handful. Toss everything together i time again too sprinkle the remaining pomegranate seeds across the transcend of the salad. Serve immediately.
I know at showtime glance this salad may appear a niggling Summery, but the pomegranate too the walnuts give it a lovely Wintery edge, too I mean value the gem similar nature of the pomegranate seeds select a niggling brightness into what is commonly the dreariest calendar month of the year. Serve with roughly sort of poly peptide such every bit my Moroccan Chicken Goujons with Yogurt too Mint Dip.