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Dinner · 10 min · 4 as a side

Shallot vinaigrette greens

The salad that is really a dressing lesson. Shallot sits in the vinegar first to lose its burn, mustard goes in before the oil, and the leaves get dressed at the last second.

The sheet · 4 as a side · 10 min

easy

Why tonight. The salad that is really a dressing lesson. Shallot sits in the vinegar first to lose its burn, mustard goes in before the oil, and the leaves get dressed at the last second.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • lettuce
  • shallot
  • olive oil
  • red wine vinegar

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: dijon.

Method

  1. Shallot sliced paper thin and left to sit in the vinegar with a pinch of salt for ten minutes. It goes from harsh to sweet and pink.
  2. Then dijon whisked in, then oil in a thin stream. The mustard is what holds it together, so it goes in before the oil, never after.
  3. Three parts oil to one part vinegar, then taste and correct. Bottled vinaigrette is always more acid than that and always tastes of it.
  4. Dress the leaves in a wide bowl with your hands, immediately before it goes on the table. Dressed lettuce has about four minutes.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

lettuce
Structure and water, and it is worth being fussy about.
shallot
Onion flavor with less water and more perfume, so it works raw where an onion would shout.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.
red wine vinegar
The workhorse acid for anything savory and cooked.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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