Avocado, Chicory, Grapefruit and Orange Salad with Oaked Highland Gin Dressing
By Tony Reeman-Clark of Strathearn Distillery
AS well as being the first traditional single cask distillery to start production in more than 100 years, employees of Strathearn Distillery based in Perth are using their unique products to create delicious dishes, enjoyed inside and outside the distillery.
Primarily producing gin, Strathearn are also maturing whisky, which is ready in December; they have created the world’s first Scottish Cider Brandy with Thistly Cross Cider and the first Honeyberry Gin alongside Stewart Arbuckle from PA Arbuckle & Sons. Their whisky auction is now live and the first 100 bottles from the distillery can be bid on.
Here, Tony Reeman-Clark, Distillery founder, shows us how to make Avocado, Chicory, Grapefruit and Orange Salad with Strathearn Oaked Highland Gin as part of the dressing.
Tony explains the salad dressing was created only by chance and was discovered when a gin minus the tonic was knocked over into a salad.
Rather than make a new one, we tried the variation and soon people were fighting over a salad.
Serves 2
INGREDIENTS:
For the salad:
1 ripe avocado
2 heads of chicory
1 large orange
1 pink grapefruit
Fresh mint or coriander, to garnish
For the dressing:
50ml olive oil
25ml Strathearn Oaked Highland Gin
½ tsp Agave Nectar
Sea salt and ground black pepper, to taste
METHOD
1 Slice the chicory down the middle and then chop the leaves into 1cm slices. Place in a shallow salad bowl.
2 Cut off the peel and the pith, with a sharp knife, from both the orange and grapefruit and slice into segments, add to chicory. Add any juice from the fruit to the bowl.
3 Remove the avocado skin and stone and slice. Add the avocado to the salad.
4 Mix the dressing ingredients well and pour over the salad.
5 Garnish with fresh mint or coriander and season to taste.
We recommend enjoying this salad with a neat serving of Oaked Highland Gin. The perfect accompaniment!
In association with Taste Communications
www.tastecommunications.co.uk
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