Fancy Italian Salad

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The fanciest of salads, in my opinion, looks visually stunning. Salads look so great in person and online because of the expression of colors. In this fancy Italian, we take colorful shredded green lettuce and paint it with a rainbow of colors and height. It’s a flavorful component-driven salad dressed with sliced salami, diced tomatoes, and grated Parmesan cheese. Baked chickpeas add the necessary crunch and tie it all together. Tossed with a simple Italian vinaigrette, this is a salad to make to impress your friends or a loved one.

Simple salads use simple components, but are slightly elevated. What does elevated mean? It means there was a little extra thought and finesse in curating or preparing. Elevated croutons are the spiced chickpeas. Good salami elevates the salad from cheap sliced deli salami. Good Parmesan is just good Parmesan. Don’t buy that cheap stuff. These small touches make the salad fancy. I just want more fancy salads.

Preparing the greens for this salad comes next. Believe it or not, romaine and iceberg lettuces do not have the same crunch. Iceberg tends to wilt faster than romaine, but holds onto the vinaigrette more when freshly tossed. Two lettuces make salads fancier, no doubt about it.

FOR SALAD:
  • 3 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
  • 1 head Romaine lettuce, finely sliced
  • 1 cup English cucumber, chopped
  • 1/4 cup salami slices, sliced into strips
  • 1 roma tomato, finely diced
  • 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese (good stuff)
FOR VINAIGRETTE:
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons dried oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
INGREDIENTS
  • 15 oz. can chickpeas, drained
  • 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder

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