Roasted Fennel Orange Olive Salad
Nov 26, 2015, Updated Jan 02, 2018
Roasted Fennel Orange Olive Salad is easy, quick and delicious!
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A unique salad bursting with flavors of fennel, orange and Mezzetta Olives! Also a fun giveaway at the bottom of this post!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Wow I am sure everyone must be super busy preparing all that delicious food! I would love to hear all about your menu! Obviously I am most interested in the desserts and I am hoping my pecan streusel pumpkin pie makes to your Thanksgiving table! Anyway with so much yummy food, we also need something healthier to balance it out, agree? And so here I am with a very unique salad – Fennel Orange Olive Salad with Mezzetta Olives!
Have you guys tried fennel? I know it’s not something we eat everyday, in fact I tried it for the very first time this year only. Before that I only knew about fennel seeds, which is used a lot in Indian cooking. In fact Indians eat a lot of pickle and fennel seeds are almost always added to all pickles. However eating fresh fennel was something which I had never tried until few months ago.
To make this salad more flavorful, I roasted the fennel with some garlic and balsamic vinegar. Tastes so good! And let’s not forget about the star of the salad, the Mezzetta Olives. The Kalmata Olives are my absolute favorite, they add so much flavor to any dish. All you have to do is add them to a dish and then see the magic. Pizza, Sandwiches, Breads and of course salad, they taste amazing in everything! Mezzetta sources the finest fresh produce from the sun-drenched soils of California, Italy, Spain, France, and Greece and prepares them according to their Italian family recipes at its state-of-the-art production facility in the Napa Valley.
I hope you guys give this roasted fennel orange olive salad a try. It’s so flavorful and also very different from what we usually eat, I am sure you will love it as much as I did! And for those who are missing the cheese in salad (yes I know!), please feel free to add any cheese of your choice. I would recommend feta and goat cheese.
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* Add any cheese of your choice to this salad before serving. Feta cheese would go very well with this!
Roasted Fennel Orange Olive Salad
Ingredients
For the fennel
- 1 bulb of fennel
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
for the salad
- 2 oranges peeled and cut into rounds
- ¼ cup mezzetta olives
- ¼ cup cucumber diced
- 2-3 springs of dill finely chopped
for dressing
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon orange juice
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Remove the stalk of the fennel and cut it into 2 halves. Divide each half into 4 parts further. We want thick parts of fennel for this salad.
- Heat olive oil in pan. Once the oil is hot, add the cut fennel and crushed garlic cloves.
- Cook till each side starts turning light golden brown.
- Add balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Cook for around 10-15 minutes till fennel softens. Flip the fennel pieces in between so that it roasts equally from both sides.
- Once the fennel is soft, remove it from the pan and set aside.
- Make the dressing by mixing together maple syrup, olive oil, orange juice and salt and pepper.
- To make the salad, in a bowl place together roasted fennel, oranges, cucumber and olives. Sprinkle chopped dill.
- Drizzle the dressing on top and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I am doing a lot of salads lately to bring to the countless holiday parties. They’re the only things I can manage with my broken hand! So I am constantly looking for inspiration to bring an unexpected twist to the salads I bring to the holiday table. Yay for your orange fennel and olive salad – a winner for sure ?
Fennel and orange… one of my favourite combinations ever! Great idea to roast the fennel with garlic, I will try that. Gorgeous pictures as always Manali!
My in-laws make a salad like this for Thanksgiving every year and it’s incredible! This is one of my favorite salads, and I love the beautiful presentation!
Yum, I had a similar combination at a recipe once. Love it!
Sounds like the perfect combination! Love this salad!
I can’t say I’ve ever tried fennel and orange together. I don’t use fennel much, but this looks incredible! I’ll have to give it a shot sometime. Thanks for the idea!
Fennel and orange goes so well together. This looks like such a beautiful salad.
This salad is beautiful Manali! I love the colours. Orange and olive is such a great combination!
This is so delicious, and I love esp. the roasted fennel.