It’s easy to find nostalgia in the food from areas you previously lived in. Sometimes an endless hunt to find the food you so once craved and could fulfill yourself with can go unresolved. With that sense of longing to eat what you now miss, you fade away into obscurity, spending your nights crying the in corner and looking at pictures of the food you had taken before devouring it in your previous area of residency. Your Instagram account gives you a feeling of malnourishment and you almost find yourself buying a plane ticket just to eat the fucking food…..
Here’s the Pagliacci Salad from Pagliacci Pizza in Seattle, Washington. Pagliacci Pizza is a great pizza joint. It’s not called Pagliacci Salads for a reason, the pizza is absolutely delicious. They do this stinky pepperoni one that’s just to die for. I may attempt to recreate that at another time, but for now, the focus is on the salad. It’s a salad, what could be so exciting? The ingredients for the salad aren’t really all that impressive either. But the dressing….yeah it’s the dressing. And it works so well with the salad components that literally everyone I’ve ever made this salad for has said “ok, I need the recipe, this is one of the best salads I’ve ever had”. I feed people who come to my house and request I make this salad. I can make a lot of really good shit, and I get a request for a salad.
So, for those of you who have asked (you know who you are), make your own salad. Here’s how.
Pagliacci Salad (Copycat)
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 head of green leaf lettuce chopped
- 1 can garbanzo beans drained and rinsed
- 1 red bell pepper sliced into thin 1-inch strips, or chopped
- 1/2 red onion chopped
- 1 cup parmesean, shredded you can substitute Mozzarella but I do prefer the Parmesean.
- 1/2 pound salami diced into 1/4 inch cubes, or chopped is fine
The Dressing
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 egg – whole
- 1 egg – yolk 2 total eggs, 1 is the entire egg, plus one additional egg yolk
- 2 tbsp lemon juice freshly sq
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp Worcestershire
- 1 tbsp tarragon fresh is great but dried will totally work.
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- For the dressing, combine all ingredients except for the olive oil in a blender or food processor, and blitz until well combined. With the blender running on high, slowly drizzle in the olive oil to create a nice emulsification.
- Combine salad ingredients in a bowl and toss with dressing. Do you really need me to explain how to dress a salad? Now eat!
