Sicilian Salad
Tipycal Sicilian recipe

The Author - Mrs. Anna Cucinotta, from Palermo, Italy.

Ingredients: quantity for 4 people

1 big head of lettuce	2 tablespoons single cream
1 big, beautiful orange	juice of ½ lemon
5 walnuts	salt and pepper
8 almonds

Preparation

Prepare the lettuce. Remove all leaves which are too green or wrinkled and the bigger ribs. Shred the bigger leaves and leave the smaller ones as they are.

Wash the salad in several changes of fresh water, drain it carefully, wrap it in a cloth and put it in the fridge.

Chop the walnuts and almonds and layer them in a salad bowl.

Wash the orange, dry it and peel it with a sharp knife, in order to trim away only the yellow part of the peel, that you will cut into very thin strips. Add the orange rind into the salad bowl.

Peel the orange completely and remove the transparent skin. Cut the orange into thin slices and keep the juice.

When it is time to serve the salad pour the cream and lemon juice into the bowl, over the other ingredients, and season to taste with salt and pepper and mix. Add the lettuce, garnish the surface with the slices of orange arranged over the top as to form a crown and pour over the rest of the juice. 

Mix only just before serving.