This stunning Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad is the perfect combination of winter seasonal ingredients and flavours.
I call this salad the ‘anti-salad’ because it’s so refreshing and tasty. Creating salads that taste as good as they looks is one of my passions. Check out this Smoked Cherry Grilled Radicchio Salad or Grilled Peach Burrata Salad for something completely different.
Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad
I couldn’t believe how long it took me to choke down my last salad. As I chewed those greasy greens…my mouth was basically masticating of it’s own volition with the rest of my body slumped in joyless determination; I felt my mind take over, willing me to just…stop. Sitting there munching mechanically on my less-than-stellar lettuce, grape tomato, and cucumber salad combo that I had topped with one of the nastiest bottled salad dressings, I made a promise to myself: no more quickly thrown together, boring, revolting salads!
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A Seasonal Salad in Winter
It’s been a week or two and the pain is still real. That olive oil lime dressing hit the garbage and tried to move on but it’s not that easy. That lettuce is still sitting in the fridge taunting me for a ‘quickie’. Luckily my fridge also contains some brighter, more attractive winter salad ingredients such as pink grapefruit, Belgian endive and always…the unctuous avocado. I know for a fact that this seductive threesome get on really well together and all they would really need is a touch of sweetness and a smidgen of salt to let those flavours really shine.
To Leave it Veg, or to not Leave it Veg
So yeah, I could have totally made this a vegetarian/vegan salad by adding some salty (and visually appealing pistachios) but a girl’s got to have some fun, am I right? Bring on the crispy prosciutto is what I say!
Build Yourself a Pretty Salad, You’re Worth It!
The irony was not lost on me when I realized that it probably took me longer to think about and build this salad today, than it took me to photograph it and eat it. I didn’t mind because eating such a pretty salad, that also tastes wonderful was well worth it. I’m worth it. I am worth more than a ‘quickie’ salad and you are too.
That Flavour Appeal
I know what you’re thinking….that you don’t have time to make this salad, but it’s really not that difficult and you don’t even have to make it as pretty as these ‘food blogger quality’ photos above. In fact I served the leftover ‘odds and ends’ to my family later for dinner; all the loose bits of endive, slightly brown avocado and broken grapefruit. As long as I topped it with the crispy prosciutto and that light and easy dressing…no one said ‘boo’ while they were shovelling it down their throats.
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Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad
This stunning Pink Grapefruit Avocado Endive Salad is the perfect combination of winter seasonal ingredients and flavours.
Ingredients
- 1-2 pink grapefruits
- 1 Tablespoon rosemary infused olive oil
- 1 teaspoon shallot; very finely diced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 Belgian endive
- 1/2 ripe yet still firm avocado
- 1 slice prosciutto
- a sprig of fresh young rosemary
Instructions
- Slice the ends off of each grapefruit, then slice into even rounds. Trim the skin and pith off around the edges of each slice until you are satisfied with the shape of each grapefruit slice. Arrange on plate (or skip all the way to *7)
- Squeeze some of the unused grapefruit and strain into a jar. You should have 3 tablespoons of strained grapefruit juice. Add shallots and olive oil to the jar. Season with salt.
- Slice Belgian endive cross ways in slices similar in thickness to your grapefruit slices. Take care to leave a few tightly intact and arrange on top of the grapefruit slices, placing the largest one in the centre. Keep the very tips of the endive to scatter around the plate later on and try to keep one whole to place in centre of avocado nest.
- Half the avocado and remove the pit. Peel carefully and thinly slice avocado cross ways. Arrange in an attractive pattern on top of the central endive slice, creating a bit of a nest. Place endive tip in avocado nest.
- Cut up prosciutto slice and fry until crispy. Scatter over salad.
- Spoon dressing over salad and scatter some young slivers of rosemary over all. Season, as always. Enjoy.
OR
*7. Add chunks of pink grapefruit, avocado, and endive to a salad bowl. Make the dressing. Throw in some rosemary and crispy prosciutto. Toss with dressing. Season, as always.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
2Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 374Total Fat: 23gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 18gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 657mgCarbohydrates: 40gFiber: 14gSugar: 18gProtein: 9g
Nutritional calculation was provided by Nutritionix and is an estimation only. For special diets or medical issues please use your preferred calculator.
Wow.. Looks enticing….droool…. I have the same opinion as the rest, this is the prettiest salad ever.
Thank you Stacey. I definitely do not cook this fancy all the time. My family would revolt. But sometimes it’s nice to step out of your comfort zone a bit.
That’s the prettiest salad I’ve ever seen!!!
aw thanks Mimi! 🙂
This must be the prettiest salad I’ve ever seen! It looks like a plate of flowers at first glance. I’ve never had grapefruit and endive together before but I’m excited to see how the flavours pair. Simply lovely!!
Well…grapefruit is sweet n sour, endive is bitter. The combo isn’t for everyone but I think people don’t explore ‘bitter’ very often. Of course, to counteract those flavours you need a touch of salt!
How did I not find your blog before?! It looks amazing 😉
I’m so glad you stopped by Bernadine! Thank you so much, the blog is something that I really love to do.
I love your blog and am glad I stopped by!! I really love blogging too 🙂🙂
Bernice, this is an awesome salad combo. I love all of those ingredients, and together they sound like perfection. And so pretty, too 🙂
Thank you Colleen 🙂
What a great combination! This looks lovely! I can’t imagine anyone not enjoying this lovely salad.
Thank you Cathy…truth be told, I made the fancy salad for all the blog/social media photos and tossed the rest of the ingredients in a bowl for dinner. They tasted the same! Shocking, I know. But of course, there is something special about eating something pretty.
This is just actually not a salad but a work of art! Have to admit on first glance on Instagram I thought oh cool Bernice is doing a flower arrangement (oops!) Sure it is as delicious as it is gorgeous 🙂 And really you had me at crispy prosciutto!
haha! I don’t get fancy too often but I am really sick of blah salads. It definitely needed the prosciutto (or at least something salty like pistachios) to balance out the sour and bitter notes.
Wow! Really pretty this salad and just right for this time of the year! It’s hard to pair grapefruit but you made it work perfectly with the smooth avocado! great job!
aw thanks!! I had a grapefruit and avocado salad in San Francisco once…that was my inspiration!
Love the combination!