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Classic Parisian restaurant mixed salad with ham, mushroom, cheese and egg

Parisian Restaurant Style Mixed Salad

Course: Salad
Cuisine: French
Occasion: Quick & easy
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 4
French Salade Parisienne, classic Mixed salad as served at Parisian Restaurants. Why Parisian? Because this dish is a staple of the city of light's cafés, brasseries, and bistros and uses local ingredients such as button mushrooms and ham.
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Ingredients

  • 1 salad lettuce or batavia
  • 16 button mushrooms medium-size
  • 160 gr cheese Emmental or other pressed cheese Gruyère, Comté...
  • 160 g ham
  • 4 eggs

Vinaigrette

  • 4 tablespoons rapeseed oil
  • 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon mustard from Dijon
  • salt
  • pepper freshly grounded

Instructions

Start by cooking the eggs

  • Heat water in a saucepan. Once boiling, carefully add the eggs one by one with a large spoon.
  • Cook for 7 to 8 minutes 9 if you want hard-boiled eggs.
  • When eggs are cooked, put them in a bowl of cold water and change the water several times, so they'll be easier to peel the shell; your final step in this preparation.

Prepare the other salad ingredients

  • Dice the ham and cheese.
  • Scrub the mushrooms and, if necessary, run them under clear water to dry. Cut off the bottom of the stems and slice into strips.
  • Wash and spin-dry the salad.

Make the vinaigrette

  • Place the mustard in the salad bowl, and add a few turns of ground pepper and a pinch of salt. Mix well.
  • Add the vinegar and emulsify. Add the oil and mix again.

Dress

  • Either leave everything in the salad bowl or put the salad leaves and mushroom slices in the bowl to mix with the vinaigrette.
  • Then arrange them on individual plates and add the remaining ingredients: eggs, cheese, and ham.