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Salade Lorette
Created by Chef Juliette
Salade Lorette is a study in clean contrasts: tender mâche, earthy beetroot, and crisp celeriac in equal measure, dressed simply and joined only when the bowl is ready for the table.
Salade Lorette (lamb's lettuce with beetroot and celeriac) teaches one clean principle: ingredients that stain must remain separate until the final fold. The bowl should show deep green mâche, ivory celeriac, and garnet beetroot as three distinct voices, not one weary pink mixture. Before you touch a pan, know that you don't need one. This salad is decided by the knife and the final thirty seconds.
The old entry assumed a garde-manger with cooked beetroot, washed mâche, and a practiced hand cutting trays of julienne. The honest home equivalent is plain ready-cooked beetroot, a sharp knife, and 100 grams of each principal ingredient for four people. Cooking and cooling a single beet is brigade scaffolding, so it may go; equal proportions, the julienne cut, and the spare seasoning of oil and vinegar are the dish, so they stay.
The vinaigrette simple, an oil-and-vinegar emulsion, needs no mustard, herbs, or other embroidery. Dress the celeriac and mâche first, then fold in the beetroot only once or twice. That last restraint is the step that matters most.
Ingredients
mâche, also called corn salad or lamb's lettuce
Quantity
4 loosely packed cups (950 ml / 100 g prepared weight)
roots trimmed, washed and thoroughly dried
plain cooked beetroot
Quantity
¾ cup (180 ml / 100 g prepared weight)
peeled and cut julienne-fashion
celeriac, also called celery root
Quantity
1 cup (240 ml / 100 g prepared weight)
peeled and cut julienne-fashion
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| mâche, also called corn salad or lamb's lettuceroots trimmed, washed and thoroughly dried | 4 loosely packed cups (950 ml / 100 g prepared weight) |
| plain cooked beetrootpeeled and cut julienne-fashion | ¾ cup (180 ml / 100 g prepared weight) |
| celeriac, also called celery rootpeeled and cut julienne-fashion | 1 cup (240 ml / 100 g prepared weight) |
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