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This chopped salad recipe is adapted from The Mozza Cookbook: Recipes from Los Angeles’s Favorite Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria by Nancy Silverton with Matt Molina and Carolynn Carreño. Pizzeria Mozza can be found at the Treehouse Hotel in Marylebone in London’s West End.

The salad makes for a delicious accompaniment to Nancy Silverton's goat's cheese pizza with leeks and pancetta. Follow it with her luxurious butterscotch budino for dessert.

We've got plenty more fresh salad ideas, including this classic Cobb salad and za’atar chopped salad.

VINAIGRETTE

  • 2½ tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp dried oregano
  • 1⁄2 lemon
    juiced
  • 2 cloves garlic
    1 smashed flat, 1 crushed
  • ground to make 1⁄4 tsp whole black peppercorns
  • 100ml extra-virgin olive oil

SALAD

  • 1⁄2 small red onion
    halved and thinly sliced
  • 1 iceberg lettuce
    cut into ½cm strips
  • 1 radicchio
    cut into ½cm strips
  • 340g cherry tomatoes
    cut into quarters
  • 320g tin chickpeas
    drained
  • 100g provolone
    thinly sliced
  • 100g salami
    thinly sliced
  • 5 peperoncini
    cut into thin slices, or pickled jalapeños chopped to make 1 tbsp
  • 1⁄2 lemon
    juiced
  • dried oregano
    to serve

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal188
  • fat13.7g
  • saturates4.2g
  • carbs7.1g
  • sugars3.1g
  • fibre3g
  • protein7.5g
  • salt0.8g

Method

  • step 1

    Put the onion in a small bowl of ice-cold water while you prepare the remaining ingredients.

  • step 2

    For the vinaigrette, whisk together all of the ingredients, plus ½ tsp of fine sea salt, in a small bowl, seasoning to taste. Drain the onion and pat dry with kitchen paper. Combine the lettuce, radicchio, tomatoes, chickpeas, provolone, salami, peperoncini and onion in a large, wide bowl. Season with salt to taste, and toss thoroughly to combine.

  • step 3

    Drizzle 6 tbsp of the vinaigrette over the salad, then sprinkle with the lemon juice, tossing gently to coat the salad evenly. Taste and add the remaining 2 tbsp of vinaigrette, plus any salt or lemon juice to taste. Transfer the salad to a large platter or pile up on individual plates. Sprinkle some oregano on top to serve.

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