Lovers' Salad

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 7 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 lemon, zest of
• fresh rosemary, finely chopped
• salt and pepper
• mixed salad green
• herbs (mint, sorrel, lovage, lemon balm, rosemary, nasturtiam flowers) (optional) or fresh edible flower (mint, sorrel, lovage, lemon balm, rosemary, nasturtiam flowers) (optional)
• lettuce leaf
• 1 cucumber, peeled and thickly sliced
• olive (optional)

Recipe

• 1 first make the dressing: whisk the egg yolk, mustard and lemon juice in a small bowl, then add the oil slowly, in a very thin stream (rather like making a mayonnaise, although the texture should not be quite so thick). add the lemon zest, rosemary and a little seasoning. chill and allow to steep for a few hours.
• 2 just before serving, combine the salad ingredients and toss with the dressing. the flowers should be added last for visual effect: they can be added after the salad has been dressed, so as not to become wet. the whole meal is designed to be light but full of flavour.