Corleone... the salad not The Godfather

We frequent this Italian place which was called 'Little Italy'. It recently changed management and is called Italia now. The menu and the quality remains the same. The food is all vegetarian and fantastic.

Over repeated visits we pretty much fixed on our order. The assorted crostini (little pieces of crisp garlic bread topped with all kinds of lip smacking goodness - artichokes, olives & cheese, tomatoes and parsley), Corleone salad and Tabasco pizza (thin crust pizza with sun dried tomatoes and cheese).

The Corleone salad is the most fascinating. It is an extremely simple dish. A bite is an explosion of flavours which are meant to be together. We decided to re-create it at home. We knew all the ingredients that went into and knew where to find them. So we began.

You need:

Iceberg Lettuce
Onions
Vinegar
Olives, capers, sun dried tomatoes
Sweet corn
Boiled potatoes
Olive oil

Wash the lettuce and cut it up into little pieces. Slice an onion and soak it in the vinegar for 2 hours. Boil sweetn corn till it is very soft.

Take lettuce in a large dish. Spread the vinegar onions, olive capers and sun dried tomatoes on top of it. Dice two boiled potatos and spread it on top of the dish. Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste. Mix it all up. Spread about one teaspoon of olive oil and the oil in the sun dreied tomatoes on top of all this. Mix in the corn into all this and you are done.




Serve with slightly toasted garlic bread or dinner rolls.

With soup to begin with, this makes for a complete, tasty and healthy meal.