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This vibrant Mediterranean salad showcases a colorful mixture of arugula, baby beet leaves, spinach and snow peas. Mesclun's fresh, complex flavour and tender, crispy texture work beautifully alongside sweet tender snow peas and creamy quail eggs, all finished with a rich, nutty dressing made from Parmesan, red wine vinegar, olive oil, honey, salt and voatsiperifery black pepper. Boil the quail eggs to your own liking, two minutes (soft-boiled), three minutes (medium-boiled) or four minutes (hard-boiled).
Mesclun, the French word for “mixture”, is a mix of tender, young salad green leaves. The mix often includes leaf lettuce, arugula, endive, frisée, mizuma, oak leaf, mâche or lamb’s lettuce, radicchio, sorrel, chervil, groundsel, and dandelion. Mesclun can be made from a blend of different types of wild and cultivated plants with varying tastes, colours, and textures.
Voatsiperifery pepper is a wild pepper grown in southern Madagascar. Voatsiperifery pepper is one of an exceptional variety of peppers that are much smaller than the standard black pepper, and easily recognizable thanks to its comet-like stem. Rustic and above all very fragrant with an intensely herbal, floral and citrusy aroma and flavour. It comes in three colours, corresponding to the different stages of ripening: black, white and red. Voa, the Malagasy word for fruit, and tsiperifery, the local name of the plant.
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- 12 Quail eggs
- 150 g Mesclun
- 50 g Snow peas
- 50 g Parmigiano-Reggiano, shaved
- 10 g Chives
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- 30 g Parmigiano-Reggiano, finely grated
- 3 tbsp Red wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 1/2 tsp Sea salt
- 8 Voatsiperifery black pepper, crushed
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- Cook the quail eggs by carefully lowering them into boiling water using a ladle. Turn down the heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Drain and immediately run under cold water until cool to touch. Leave covered in cold water until needed.
- Blanch snow peas in a small pot of boiling salted water for 1 minute. Drain and refresh under cold water to help retain the bright green colour. Pat dry with a clean tea towel.
- Place the freshly grated Parmesan, red wine vinegar, olive oil and honey together in a glass jar or bowl. Stir until well combined. Season with sea salt and freshly crushed wild black pepper.
- Combine mesclun and snow peas in a salad bowl. Add in half of the dressing and gently toss together.
- Peel the quail eggs, cut each one in half and place them on the greens with freshly shaved Parmesan. Scatter the chives over and serve.
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31 comments:
Quail eggs are special for me. Mum used to cook it for me whenever I get a cold.
I don't often use quail eggs but I like them very much. This salad is appealing to me.
That sure is one beautiful salad!
...this looks fresh and springy.
Rica ensalada te mando un beso.
Looks good!
OMG! That sumptuous mix of flavours, textures and colours, all in one salad. Sounds delicious.
Thank you so much for all the interesting explanations of the more unusual ingredients, that saved me so much 'google' time!
I know this is silly, as I do like hard-boiled eggs, however, I may have to substitute those quail's eggs for regular hen's eggs - It a personal psychological hang-up :)
Que ensalada tan interesante, pocos ingredientes y aún así que cantidad de sabores ricos.
Un beso.
So healthy and fresh!
That would even taste great with chicken eggs I think. I am going to hard boil some today as I haven't had any for awhile. Thanks for the inspiration, and sharing this delicious looking salad. Happy new week. hugs-Erika
I am going to try your dressing today! I just love the ingredients it will be great on anything even as a dipping for bread!
Love chives and love that wooden dish in the first photo! How do people produce quail eggs for mass market? Do they have farms with quails giving eggs on a daily basis or do they rummage in the wilderness to find them?
Looks good!
Qué ensalada tan deliciosa, me gustan todos los ingredientes. Muchas gracias por compartir 😘
Great salad!...looks so delicious!!.....Abrazotes, Marcela
Judee from Gluten Free A-Z Blog: Looks like we are on the same page this week with a snow pea salad! Your display and presentation look exceptional.
love quail eggs... yummy.
I'll try your recipe.... thank you for sharing.
This looks really delicious Angie, quail eggs are perfect in a salad.
Looks very good. I would imagine that one could use regular eggs instead of quail eggs without it suffering too much.
I love quail egg, it does look good in salad.
I like quail eggs in Chinese sweet drinks. For the time being, I have to eat fully cooked food.
Un insalata molto primaverile, una delizia!!!
Your salad is amazing - I can't wait to taste it
What a color, healthy salad! That salad looks amazing!
This is so beautiful! And those beautiful little eggs! Love the dressing.
What a beautiful salad.
A delicious salad !
Beautiful and tasty salad that reminds me that spring will be coming eventually - even to Canada! Lol
Quelle jolie salade avec ses petits oeufs de caille et son parmesan. belle fin de soirée
What an exotic salad! I'm going to have to figure out where to find quail eggs.
I love the little eggs on there.
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