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Double orange-mint salad

1
Points® value
Total Time
15 min
Prep
15 min
Serves
6
Difficulty
Easy
Vibrant, colourful, and packed with nutrition, this unusual salad is an eye-catching start to a meal or wonderful accompaniment to a grilled chicken breast or piece of poached fish. It gets a boost of complex, distinctive flavour from orange flower water, which is distilled from orange blossoms and a commonly used ingredient in Mediterranean dishes. The warm-spiced sugar sprinkle adds even more interest. A garnish of tiny basil or chervil leaves would also work well here. Blood oranges get their ruby hue from anthocyanins, the same compound makes some cabbage red and blueberries blue.

Ingredients

Blood orange

3 medium, peeled and sliced into thin rounds

Orange

3 medium, navel variety, peeled and sliced into thin rounds

Orange blossom water

¼ tsp(s)

Confectioners' sugar

2 tbsp(s)

Ground cinnamon

¼ tsp(s)

Black pepper

1 pinch(es)

Fresh mint leaves

24 sprig(s), torn if large

Instructions

  1. Remove any seeds from oranges. Arrange oranges on large platter, alternating blood oranges and navel oranges. Sprinkle with orange flower water. Cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate up to several hours.
  2. When ready to serve, combine confectioners' sugar, cinnamon, and pepper in cup. Transfer to small sieve. Tap sugar mixture over oranges; scatter mint leaves over. Serve cold.
  3. Serving size: 1 sliced orange