Simple Romaine Salad with Shaved Cucumbers and Radishes with a Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette
Feb 03, 2021, Updated Feb 08, 2025
A simple Salad with lots of crunch with a Zesty Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette. Shaving vegetables brings a nice look and texture to a salad. Shave with a sharp, wide vegetable peeler… so easy and fun.
Shaving vegetables brings a nice look and texture to a salad. Shave with a sharp, wide vegetable peeler… so easy and fun.
I like to have watermelon and purple daikon radishes in my fridge, they are great keepers and add a blast of gorgeous color and zippy flavor.
This dressing is simple to make – a few tricks, and you will learn how to emulsify it correctly:
- To make – Add your minced flavoring ingredients to a bowl.
- Add lemon juice, and lemon juice from the jar of preserved lemons – it’s deliciously salty, so you do not use another salt.
- Measure the oil – get out a wire whisk and add the oil very slowly!!
- Once half has been added, you can stream little faster, but still quite slow.
- You will have a thick and perfectly emulsified dressing.
I always have many dressings in my fridge – it’s a thing of mine!
Enjoy this simple salad and zesty vinaigrette!
Karen
Simple Romaine Salad with Shaved Cucumbers and Radishes with a Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette
A simple Salad with lots of crunch with a Zesty Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette. Shaving vegetables brings a nice look and texture to a salad. Shave with a sharp, wide vegetable peeler… so easy and fun.
Ingredients
- 4 cups romaine lettuce leaves, cleaned and dried
- 2 mini cucumbers, persian type, 4"
- 1/3 cup radishes, I use watermelon radishes and purple daikon
- 1/2 cup microgreens
- 1/2 cup Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette, use about 1/2 cup in this recipe
Instructions
- Make the Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette
- Prepare Vegetables: Leave inner small romaine lettuce leave whole, cut the rest into bite sized pieces (can use all small leaves.) Shave the cucumbers lengthwise with a vegetable peeler. Can also use a mandoline. Wash and dry radishes, peel if you like. Shave thinly into circles.
- Plate the romaine on individual plates, or add to a serving bowl. Add the shaved cucumbers, bending them into pretty shapes. Top with radishes and sprinkle all over with microgreens. Drizzle with the Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette – enjoy!
Notes
See Recipe: Preserved Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette
This recipe may not be reproduced without the consent of its author, Karen Sheer.
Nutrition
Calories: 151kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 1gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gSodium: 8mgPotassium: 145mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 4101IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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