Tarbes Salad

Ingredients

• For the salad:
• 1 white or yellow onion
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• ½ head your favorite lettuce
• About 5 walnuts, broken into bits
• 1 ripe orange, cut into small pieces
• Small chunk of hard blue or Roquefort cheese, diced
• For the dressing:
• 50 ml extra-virgin olive oil
• 25 ml balsamic vinegar
• 1 tsp whole grain mustard
• 1 squirt of lemon juice
• Salt
• Pepper to taste

Method

1. Cut the onion into half moons and brown it in a bit of olive oil. Make it nice and crispy. Once it's done, put it aside in a bowl and squirt a bit of lemon juice on it.
2. As the onion is cooking, wash the lettuce thoroughly. Soak it several times. Nothing is worse than gritty lettuce in a salad. Break the lettuce into bite-size pieces and drop them in your spinner under running water. Once it's washed, spin it until it's dry. Wet lettuce will dilute the dressing.
3. Once the lettuce is dry, put it in a bowl. Add the onions, walnuts, orange and cheese.
4. To make the dressing, just mix the ingredients in a jar and give them a good shake.
5. Toss everything together in a big bowl and serve.