We’re coming into salad season, so here’s a top tip for lettuce.
Ice it. Put your lettuce in water with ice for about half an hour. Drain it well and use it in your salad – it gives it a super crisp punch.
A shortcut wedge salad. There’s a recipe for a proper wedge salad on the site, but tonight I took some shortcuts. I topped wedges of iced iceberg with chopped tomato, sliced spring onion, salt and pepper, and dressed it with a shop-bought buttermilk ranch dressing.
To finish, I sprinkled over some chive flowers – they’re beautiful, they have flavour and they actually have moisture too. A very simple salad, made special.