Bitter leaves salad

This is a lovely salad made from bitter leaves and flavoured with bacon.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 5 Mins

Total Time: 15 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

1 rasher           Bacon  - streaky, smoked - diced

                     Endive leaves          

1 head             Chicory  - cut up roughly         

                     Watercress

For the vinaigrette

1 tbs               Vinegar  - red wine   

3 tbs               Olive oil     

1 tsp               Mustard  - Dijon       

Method

Dry-fry the bacon until crispy.  Remove from the heat leaving behind any fat.  Add the vinegar to the fat and combine them.

Mix the leaves in a bowl and add the bacon lardons.

Whisk together the oil and mustard and then add in the vinegar / fat mixture.  Add this vinaigrette to the leaves and toss to cover them.