5-Minute Radicchio and Watercress Salad Recipe

Daniel Gritzer
5-Minute Radicchio and Watercress Salad Recipe
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  • Yield:Serves 4
  • Active time:5 minutes
  • Total time:5 minutes

[Photograph: Vicky Wasik]

This quick and easy salad of hearty, peppery greens is the perfect side dish for a weeknight supper.

Why It Works

The perfect peppery salad for a quick side dish. Read the Whole Story
  • No frills and no extra work for this simple salad.

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces radicchio (about 1/2 medium head; 225g), cored, leaves torn into bite-size pieces
  • 1/2 bunch watercress or arugula (about 2 ounces; 55g)
  • 2 radishes, very thinly sliced
  • 1 teaspoon (5ml) fresh juice from 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon (15ml) extra-virgin olive oil
  • Kosher salt

Directions

  1. 1.

    In a large bowl, toss together radicchio, watercress or arugula, radishes, lemon juice, and olive oil. Season with salt. Serve immediately.

Daniel Gritzer
Culinary Director

Daniel cooked for years in some of New York's top American, Italian and French restaurants - starting at the age of 13, when he began staging at the legendary restaurant Chanterelle. He spent nearly a year working on organic farms in Europe, where he harvested almonds and Padron peppers in Spain, shepherded a flock of more than 200 sheep in Italy, and made charcuterie in France. When not working on, thinking about, cooking and eating food, he blows off steam (and calories) as an instructor of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art.

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