Warm Rocket Salad

8 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 medium red onions
  • 8 whole rashers (slices) pancetta or smoked streaky bacon
  • Olive oil
  • 4 sprigs thyme
  • A good handful pine nuts
  • 4 big handfuls rocket (arugula)
  • Balsamic vinegar
  • A piece of Parmesan, for shaving

Directions

  1. 1
    Peel, halve, and quarter the onions then quarter again, to give you 8 pieces from each onion.
  2. 2
    Heat a frying pan and fry off the rashers of pancetta until crisp.
  3. 3
    Add a couple of lugs of olive oil to the pan, and add the sprigs of thyme, the onions, and pine nuts with a pinch of salt.
  4. 4
    Toss around and fry on a medium heat for about 5 minutes until caramelized and sweet (not black!
  5. 5
    ).
  6. 6
    Then, throw everything into a salad bowl with the rocket or any nice salad leaves.
  7. 7
    Drizzle generously with balsamic vinegar, this will make a natural dressing as it mixes with the olive oil.
  8. 8
    Serve with some shaved Parmesan over the top, you can use a potato peeler to do this.
  9. 9
    Munch away.

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