Rocket Salad

Scrummy warm rocket salad

With gorgeously crispy, smoky pancetta and pine nuts

Rocket Salad

20 mins

Super easy

serves 4

nutrition per serving

178

Calories


14.4g

Fat


3.1g

Saturates


4.3g

Sugars


0.81g

Salt


5.6g

Protein


6.4g

Carbs


1.7g

Fibre


of an adult’s reference intake


Recipe From

Happy Days with the Naked Chef

Happy Days with the Naked Chef

Ingredients

2 medium red onions

8 rashers higher-welfare pancetta or smoked streaky bacon

2 lugs of olive oil

4 sprigs of thyme

1 good handful of pine nuts

1 tiny pinch of salt

4 big handfuls of rocket

balsamic vinegar

Parmesan

Method

A delicious warm salad like this with sweet red onion wedges can be a real treat any time of year

  1. Warm salads can be blooming amazing or a complete disaster. First, you have got to get your hungry guests around the table before you plate up, so as soon as their bums are on the chairs, you are tossing the warm ingredients in with the rocket leaves. Boom, boom, boom on a plate and it's in front of them.
  2. Peel, halve and quarter 2 medium red onions, then quarter again, to give you 8 pieces from each onion. Heat a frying pan and fry off 8 whole rashers of pancetta or smoked streaky bacon until crisp. Remove, add a couple of lugs of olive oil to the pan, and add 4 sprigs of thyme, the onions and a good handful of pine nuts with a tiny pinch of salt. Toss around and fry on a medium heat for about 5 minutes until caramelized and sweet (not black!).
  3. Put your pancetta or bacon back into the pan, toss around, then throw everything into a salad bowl with 4 big handfuls of rocket or any nice salad leaves. Drizzle generously with balsamic vinegar – this will make a natural dressing as it mixes with the olive oil. Serve with some shaved Parmesan over the top – you can use a potato peeler to do this. Munch away.

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