Sicilian orange salad

As orange salad is generally referred to salads based on the edible segments of oranges. Orange salad is used in numerous variations as an appetizer, side dish and dessert.

Preparation

To prepare you remove the outer shell and the white inner layers of the skin of oranges. Then you cut the flesh into thin slices or either separates out the fillets. Depending on the recipe, the flesh is cut into cubes, pie slices or strips. Depending on which gear is served with the salad, one adds other ingredients such as vegetables, fruit or other fruits. As a vinaigrette sauce and marinade is mostly used is exchanged in the vinegar if necessary against orange or lemon juice. Typical condiments are in addition to salt and pepper fresh herbs and honey. Can be supplemented by the salad cream and sour cream. If the oranges are macerated in spirits such as kirsch or Curaçao, one simply adds more sugar and eat the salad as a dessert.

Variants

• As a Sicilian orange salad is called the combination with finely sliced ​​fennel, onions and black olives. In the Sicilian cuisine salad Insalata di arance as Insalata di or arancia is known. The court is used in its different variants in the Spanish cuisine.
• Depending on the ratio of the main ingredients oranges and fennel is referred to the court as a fennel salad.