Winter Greens with Pomegranate and Olives

As the parade of buffets, cookies, and cocktails comes our way, let’s make a healthy plan to fill our tummies with a daily salad. This salad of winter greens with pomegranate and olives is your new favorite antidote to holiday overindulgence!

This is one festive salad. The lacy green-edged frisée lettuce is a party already. Give it a confetti sprinke of tart fruity pomegranate seeds, salty olives, and toasted sunflower seeds and a bright dressing of lemon caper vinaigrette and you’ve got the perfect salad for your holiday gala.

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You will find a little bit of frisée in most purchased salad mixes. Aka mesclun, these mixes include baby lettuce, and most often baby arugula, spinach, chard, and a bit of purple radicchio. To give this salad a respectable share of the frilly frisée, I bought a whole head of frisée lettuce and mixed it in with baby lettuce mix.

Bright with both orange and lemon juice, the citrus dressing gets its piquant punch from capers. Keep a jar of the little dark green buds in the fridge—capers in their briny liquid last practically forever. With some of that jar of capers, you can make this easy olive and caper tapenade, an appetizer that would be welcome at holiday parties too.

Winter Greens with Pomegranate and Olives kitchen notes:

• Mildly bitter frisée, sometimes called curly endive, is part of the chicory family. Frisée lettuce has a loose head, distinctive feathery leaves, and deliciously bitter and crisp white core. Nowadays, more and more, you can find frisée in supermarket produce sections, as well as farmer’s markets.
• A ripe pomegranate has tight leather-like red skin and octagonal shape, and that’s what I bought. I expected bright crimson arils, and instead found whitish-pink jewels. But the pale seeds had plenty of sweet fruity flavor. We can’t always judge what’s inside by it’s outside cover, can we?
• Winter greens with pomegranate and olives is adapted from the winter green salad in Café Flora Cookbook, from Seattle’s renowned vegetarian restaurant.

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Winter Greens with Pomegranate Seeds and Olives

Curly-leafed frisée lettuce with radicchio, fruity pomegranate seeds, salty olives, and toasted sunflower seeds, and a lemon caper vinaigrette makes a wonderful winter salad. Makes about 6 servings.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Total Time15 minutes mins

Course: Salad

Cuisine: Vegan, Vegetarian

Keyword: frisee lettuce, pomegranates, winter salad

Servings: 6 servings

Author: Letty | @lettyskitchen

Ingredients

• ½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ½ teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon drained and rinsed capers, chopped
• Scant ½ teaspoon sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3 cups green salad mix
• 3 cups frisée lettuce, torn in bite-size pieces
• ½ cup or so pomegranate arils, from 1 pomegranate
• 3 tablespoons chopped pitted olives (I used both green and dark olives)
• 2 or 3 tablespoons toasted sunflower seeds (see note)

Instructions

• Shake the orange and lemon juices, olive oil, oregano, capers, and salt and pepper together in small jar.
• Toss about half of the vinaigrette with the greens, pomegranate arils, and olives. You want to lightly coat the lettuce, but not so much that it drowns the frisée. If you think it needs it, toss with a little more vinaigrette. Sprinkle with the sunflower seeds and serve.

Notes

To toast sunflower seeds, stir them in a hot dry pan until the seeds are golden colored with roasted aroma.

Nutrition

Calories: 118kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 118mg | Potassium: 212mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1715IU | Vitamin C: 24.3mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 0.5mg

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