Fennel Salad With Pistachio Breadcrumbs

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By Ellie Krieger

This fennel crockery is an flight from the ordinary, an exceptional crockery that takes a spot much effort than you mightiness enactment into mundane greens, but that’s what makes it worthy of a peculiar occasion.

The dressing employs 2 ingredients that request to beryllium prepared up of clip — toasted, crushed fennel seeds and roasted garlic. Torn leaves of tender greens and thinly sliced caller fennel are tossed with the dressing, past sprinkled generously with a crisp, nutty breadcrumb topping, and shavings of crisp pecorino Romano food (you could substitute parmesan).

Adapted by cookbook writer and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie Krieger from a Melissa Rodriguez look successful the “Stirring the Pot, Les Dames d’Escoffier New York Cookbook” by Silvia Baldini and Sharon Frankie (The History Press, 2023).

Ingredients

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Servings: 4 (makes 8 cups)

For the fennel vinaigrette

  • 1 1/2 tablespoons fennel seeds oregon crushed fennel
  • 1/4 cupful balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoonful reddish vino vinegar
  • 1 tablespoonful roasted ail (see Notes)
  • 1 tablespoonful Dijon mustard
  • 1 spoon tamari oregon soy sauce
  • 1/2 spoon dried oregano
  • 1/2 spoon honey
  • 1/4 spoon good salt
  • 1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 1/2 cupful extra-virgin olive oil

For the pistachio breadcrumbs

  • 1 tablespoonful positive 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
  • 1/4 cupful shelled, unsalted pistachios, astir chopped
  • 1/4 cupful plain breadcrumbs
  • 1/4 spoon good salt

For the salad

  • 1 ample caput bibb lettuce (12 ounces), leaves washed and torn into bite-size pieces
  • 1 fennel bulb, trimmed, cored and thinly sliced, fronds reserved for garnish
  • 1/4 cupful shaved pecorino Romano food (shaved with a rootlike peeler)

Nutritional Facts

(2 cups)

  • Calories

    247

  • Fat

    16 g

  • Saturated Fat

    3 g

  • Carbohydrates

    22 g

  • Sodium

    320 mg

  • Cholesterol

    5 mg

  • Protein

    6 g

  • Fiber

    4 g

  • Sugar

    5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted by cookbook writer and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie Krieger from a Melissa Rodriguez look successful the “Stirring the Pot, Les Dames d’Escoffier New York Cookbook” by Silvia Baldini and Sharon Frankie (The History Press, 2023).

Tested by Ann Maloney and Carolyn Robb.

Published December 14, 2023

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Updated March 17, 2026

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