Dinner · 10 min · Amounts not specified
Raw zucchini salad
Ribbon it. Salt. Wait five minutes.
The sheet · 2 as a side · 10 min
easyWhy tonight. Ribbon it. Salt. Wait five minutes.
What it needs
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- zucchini
- lemon
- olive oil
- parmesan
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mint.
Method
- Raw zucchini, sliced into ribbons with a peeler. Thick coins are watery and squeaky and this only works thin.
- Salt it lightly and let it sit five minutes, then blot it — even raw it gives up water.
- Lemon and oil, and dress it right before it goes on the table. Left dressed, it wilts to nothing in ten minutes.
- Parmesan in sheets and mint torn over. It is a fifteen-minute salad and it eats like a restaurant course.
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- VinaigretteDispersing fat into acid so it stays dispersed for as long as dinner takes, which is all it has to do.separates immediately · greasy · too sharp · dull
- Pasta and its waterUsing starchy cooking water to bind fat and cheese into a sauce that coats, instead of a sauce that pools.watery · clumped cheese · scrambled egg · dry and claggy
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- zucchini
- Water in a vegetable costume.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- parmesan
- Salt, fat and savory depth in a form that keeps for months.
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