Recipe Tip: Warm winter salad with chestnuts, pumpkin, prosciutto & rocket

Recipe Tip: Warm winter salad with chestnuts, pumpkin, prosciutto & rocket

Top Recipe for 4 Persons by Severin Corti. All ingredients and tips for getting it right. It is easy to forget how often chestnuts can be used to spruce up the most opulent winter dishes.

    Ingredients

    Instructions

    1. Step 1

      Preheat the oven to 200°C. Peel the pumpkin, remove seeds and cut lengthwise into pieces that are not too narrow.
    2. Step 2

      Brush a baking tray with olive oil, place the pumpkin on it, then salt, pepper and drizzle with oil. Bake for 30 minutes.
    3. Step 3

      Heat the chestnuts according to the recipe.
    4. Step 4

      For the vinaigrette, mix the lemon juice with salt, pepper and the thyme leaves, then whisk with three times the amount of olive oil to make an emulsion.
    5. Step 5

      In a large salad bowl, toss the pumpkin in the vinaigrette, add the rocket and mix together.
    6. Step 6

      Divide among serving plates, garnish with the chestnuts and prosciutto and serve. If you like, you can add a few shavings of Parmesan on top.