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Winter Crunch Salad with a Mind-Blowing Sauce

This is a really interesting, delicious winter salad dish which is a great way of using up all the crunchy winter veg that's available. Its proper name is bagna cauda, which basically means "hot bath" in Italian, and the idea is that you have a load of raw or just cooked pieces of vegetable which you dip into a delicious, warm sauce. You may like your sauce to be thick and oozy but I prefer mine to be quite thin and delicate, like the texture of thin custard, with a lovely sheen to it. You can use any vegetables you want, and depending on the season you can do a light summer version or a more root-veg-based winter one. I actually prefer my veg to be raw, as I love the crunch you get from them, but if you want to boil them briefly until they're al dente, feel free.

Recipe Excerpted from JAMIE AT HOME by Jamie Oliver. Copyright (c) 2008. Published in the U.S. by Hyperion. All Rights Reserved. www.jamieoliver.com
TOTAL TIME: 30 min
Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 20 min
YIELD: 4 servings
LEVEL: Easy

ingredients

  • For the vegetables
  • A few young carrots, peeled and finely sliced
  • A few small raw beets, peeled and finely sliced
  • A few sticks celery, trimmed and thinly sliced, yellow leaves reserved
  • 1/2 small Romanesco or white cauliflower, broken into florets
  • 1 bulb fennel, trimmed and finely sliced, herby tops reserved
  • 1 handful small beet leaves, if available, washed
  • 1 bunch radishes, trimmed and washed
  • 1/2 a celeriac, peeled and finely sliced
      • FOR THE SAUCE:
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      Directions

      First, prepare all your vegetables, because once the sauce is done you'll be ready to serve!

      To make your sauce, put the garlic cloves, milk and anchovies into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Simmer slowly for 10 minutes, or until the garlic is soft and tender, keeping a close eye on the pan to make sure the milk doesn't boil over. Don't worry if it splits and looks a little lumpy - simply remove from the heat and whiz the sauce up with an immersion blender. Gently blend in the extra-virgin olive oil and the vinegar a little at a time - you're in control of the consistency at this point. If you like it thick, like mayonnaise, keep blending. Now taste it and adjust the seasoning. Make sure there's enough acidity from the vinegar to act like a dressing. It should be an incredible, pungent warm sauce.

      There are 2 ways you can serve this - with both you need the sauce to be warm. Either pour the sauce into a bowl and place this on a plate, with the vegetables arranged around the bowl, or serve the vegetables in a big bowl and drizzle the sauce over the top. Sprinkle over the reserved herby fennel tops and celery leaves and finish with a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil.

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