Sweet oranges, crisp fennel, olives and good olive oil.
Few dishes capture the freshness of Sicilian winter better than this simple salad, where just a handful of ingredients celebrate the island’s extraordinary produce.
Every Sicilian family has its own version.
Some add olives.
Others prefer capers.
Some include thinly sliced shallots.
In my family—guided by my Sicilian nonna—we always used fennel, olives and shallots together.
Simple, fragrant and unmistakably Sicilian.
Sicilian fennel and orange salad
Authentic Italian recipes: the sicilian orange salad with olives, shallot and fennel.
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 2
Calories 94 kcal
Ingredients
- 2 oranges
- 1-2 fennels
- 2 tablespoons olives taggiasche
- 1/2 shallot
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- sea salt
Instructions
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Clean and peel the orange and the shallot. Slice them very thinly. Thinly slice the fennel too.
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Place everything in a bowl, add the other ingredients, and season with the olive oil and salt to your taste.
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Mix and serve.
Enjoy your orange salad!
Claudia