Tarbes Salad
This dish builds head of your favorite lettuce, walnut halves and ripe orange into an easy meal you can have ready in about 65 minutes. You'll find the full ingredient list (with a scaler to change the servings), 7 steps of method, substitutions, and ideas for what to serve alongside.
You'll mainly reach for pan and whisk. At medium difficulty across 7 steps, it's manageable with a little attention.
What you'll need
Shopping list (3)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: not verified. We could not confirm white from the ingredient list, so we make no dietary claim for this recipe.
Contains: Tree nuts Mustard
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How to make it
- Warm the olive oil in a small pan over low heat and gently cook the sliced onion for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring often, until soft and lightly caramelized, then set aside to cool.
- Toast the walnut halves in a dry pan over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes until fragrant, watching closely so they do not burn, then tip onto a plate to cool.
- Wash and dry the lettuce, tear it into bite-sized pieces, and arrange in a wide salad bowl.
- Peel the orange, removing all the white pith, then slice it into rounds or cut into segments over a bowl to catch the juice.
- Whisk together the extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, whole grain mustard and any reserved orange juice with a pinch of salt and pepper to make the dressing.
- Scatter the caramelized onion, orange pieces and toasted walnuts over the lettuce.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad just before serving and toss gently to coat.
You'll use: Pan Β· Whisk
Tips & common questions
How long does Tarbes Salad take to make?
About 65 minutes from start to finish β an estimate based on the 7 steps and 9 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes β use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Tarbes Salad suitable for my diet?
We make no dietary claim for this recipe: at least one ingredient could not be resolved to a definite plant or animal source, so labelling it either way would be a guess. The full ingredient list is above.
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Adapted recipe β rewritten in our own wording from an open-licensed community cookbook, not yet independently kitchen-tested by Consomee. How we source, test & correct recipes.
Tarbes Salad is adapted by Consomee from the Wikibooks Cookbook, rewritten in our own wording and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: Tarbes salad.jpg by Original uploader was Leland at en.wikibooks, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure β how we source recipes.