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Sicilian fennel and orange salad is a light and tasty side dish
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Sicilian fennel and orange salad
Description
The Sicilian fennel and orange salad is a typical dish of the Sicilian cuisine, which uses oranges as its main ingredient.
It is usually served at the beginning or at the end of a meal.
It can be prepared in many versions and very often with what we have available.
This one I propose involves a simple dressing with oil, salt and pepper. The oranges are fragrant and very sweet and the fennel, which is in season, must be absolutely top quality.
It can be accompanied, with its freshness and lightness, with roasts or, as I often do, with veal with tuna sauce or seafood skewers.
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Ingredients:
Instructions
Insalata siciliana di finocchi e arance
Instructions:
Peel the orange alive by cutting the two ends. Place the orange on the cutting board and with a sharp knife cut the peel following its shape without leaving any residue of the white part but also trying to discard as little as possible.
Once the peeling is finished, cut the orange into wedges always discarding the white part between one and the other, just incision inside the membranes of the individual wedges. In this way, only the membranes and succulent cloves will be obtained.
Arrange a base of orange wedges on a serving plate.
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You can garnish the orange with the fennel "beard" for more flavor and also to embellish the salad.
Clean the fennel by cutting the upper part where the tufts start and the end and remove the outermost layer.
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Wash the fennel thoroughly with cold water, divide it in half and cut it into fairly thin slices with a sharp knife. You can use a mandoline, it will be sliced perfectly.
At this point, place the fennel on top of the orange.ย Put some oil, white vinegar, salt and pepper in a bowl and add the liquid from the squeezed orange and emulsify with a spoon.
Pour the dressing over the fennel and orange salad and mix it all up.
Let it flavor before serving.
Enjoy!
