Tarbes Salad
Serves 2–4 Time 20 minutes Difficulty 1/5 Ingredients 12 Steps 5
Tarbes salad is a sweet and sour salad that is both tasty and easy to make.
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 white or yellow onion
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ head your favorite lettuce
- About 5 walnuts, broken into bits
- 1 ripe orange, cut into small pieces
- Small chunk of hard blue or Roquefort cheese, diced
Dressing
- 50 ml extra-virgin olive oil
- 25 ml balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon whole grain mustard
- 1 squirt of lemon juice
- Salt
- Pepper to taste
Steps
- Cut onion into half moons. Brown in a bit of olive oil until crispy. Set aside in bowl and add a bit of lemon juice.
- Wash lettuce thoroughly, soaking several times. Break into bite-size pieces and wash in spinner under running water. Spin until dry.
- Put dry lettuce in a bowl. Add onions, walnuts, orange and cheese.
- Mix dressing ingredients in a jar. Shake.
- Toss everything together in a big bowl. Serve.
Notes from the original
- Prepare the lettuce and onions early. Add the onions to the lettuce (once they've cooled down) and cover the bowl. This will allow the onions to flavor the lettuce.
- Put a bit of beer in with the onions as you brown them, or even white wine or vermouth.
- Add some minced garlic either to the dressing or to the onions.
- Use a ripe pear or a kiwi instead of the orange.
- Add a sliced up, deeply browned zucchini in addition to or instead of onion.
- If you're in a hurry, skip the onion/zucchini.
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:Tarbes Salad” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2026-04-16, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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