Warm salads can be blooming amazing or a complete disaster. First, you have got to get your hungry guests around the table before you plate up, so as soon as their bums are on the chairs, you are tossing the warm ingredients in with the rocket leaves. Boom, boom, boom on a plate and it’s in front of them.
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 20 min |
| Prep: | 5 min |
| Cook: | 15 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 medium red onions
- 8 whole rashers (slices) pancetta or smoked streaky bacon
- Olive oil
- 4 sprigs thyme
- A good handful pine nuts
- 4 big handfuls rocket (arugula)
- Balsamic vinegar
- A piece of Parmesan, for shaving
Instructions
- Peel, halve, and quarter the onions then quarter again, to give you 8 pieces from each onion. Heat a frying pan and fry off the rashers of pancetta until crisp. Add a couple of lugs of olive oil to the pan, and add the sprigs of thyme, the onions, and pine nuts with a pinch of salt. Toss around and fry on a medium heat for about 5 minutes until caramelized and sweet (not black!).
- Then, throw everything into a salad bowl with the rocket or any nice salad leaves. Drizzle generously with balsamic vinegar, this will make a natural dressing as it mixes with the olive oil. Serve with some shaved Parmesan over the top, you can use a potato peeler to do this. Munch away.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 339 |
| Total Fat | 30 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Carbohydrates | 7 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Sugar | 3 g |
| Protein | 11 g |
| Cholesterol | 43 mg |
| Sodium | 485 mg |
Reviews
Wonderful recipe!! loved it and will make again. We didnt ‘drown’ the recipe in olive oil, utilised a small amount being a glug as advised. A recipe will only be as healthy as the maker wishes it to be.. Thx once again Mr O :
I saw Jamie make this on TV and I have made it several times. We adore this recipe. Amazingly easy and delicious.
i would have been more healthy eating a mc donalds than this bowl of leaves drowned in olive oil………think my arteries may stop working tonight…….so much for a good healthy salad, no wonder we are all getting fat.
Never have I ever felt so indulgent eating a salad–I think I may have ended up with a bit too much oil in mine. (The directions aren’t clear on exactly how much oil to use, but it’s pretty important since it’s in the dressing.) This main course salad is actually really good. Two of us ate it as the main portion of our meal and found it both tasty and filling. You have to love the devil/angel dynamic–it’s bacon; but it’s also salad! Healthy and sinful all at once–brilliant!
I was a little nervous on how this salad would turn out. But the first bite had me convinced that I would be making this salad again. It is definetely a salad that impresses. Instead of using arugula I used red leaf lettuce. Next time I will also use a couple more slices of pancetta…just because you can’t have enough of it. This salad will wow anybody and when you serve it you look like a pro chef!