Grilled Radicchio

When the summer salad days have passed and you’re looking for tasty ways to keep your vegetable intake up, you can take heartier salad ingredients and give them a warm, wonderful flair on a grill pan. Radicchio is a beautiful veg that has a bitter taste when raw but deliciously mellows on the grill. This grilled radicchio recipe can be found in Maria Elia’s gorgeous cookbook The Modern Vegetarian: Food Adventures for the Contemporary Palate.
When the summer salad days have passed and you’re looking for tasty ways to keep your vegetable intake up, you can take heartier salad ingredients and give them a warm, wonderful flair on a grill pan. Radicchio is a beautiful veg that has a bitter taste when raw but deliciously mellows on the grill. This grilled radicchio recipe can be found in Maria Elia’s gorgeous cookbook The Modern Vegetarian: Food Adventures for the Contemporary Palate.

Grilled Radicchio

Recipe from The Modern Vegetarian: Food Adventures for the Contemporary Palate (Kyle Books, September 2012) by Maria Elia

Serves 4

Ingredients:

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• 1 head radicchio

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• Olive oil

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• Sea salt flakes

Directions:

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1. Preheat a grill pan.

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2. Quarter the radicchio lengthwise, removing any loose outer leaves.

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3. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, and place on the hot grill pan.

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4. Cook on both sides until wilted.

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