For ➍handful roasted & salted almonds
crisp curly lettuce
2 oranges, quartered*
sugar
dressing:
2 tbs butter, melted
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
lemon juice
Melt the butter with the garlic. Set aside to cool. Add a squeeze of lemon juice.
In the bottom of the salad bowl put the quarters* of two oranges.
On top of the oranges put the lettuce, then a few roasted, salted almonds. Sprinkle with a very little sugar.
Mix the orange, lettuce and almonds together with the dressing.
Serve on its own or with roasted or boiled chicken.
*To prepare oranges for salad, cut them in half lengthwise, then into quarters. Cut the pulp from the skin with a sharp knife.
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