TASTES OF Winter

Winter salad

Insalata invernale

➤ SERVES 4 ➤ PREPARATION 20 minutes, 6 hours ahead, then another 20 minutes

This salad, based on one by Alice Delcourt, chef in Milan, is a lively tasting mixture of winter brightness. Try to use a good assortment of leaves and, if possible, include some deep red radicchio or red chicory, baby kale and head-turning . I like some hearty spinach leaves too; the dressing is not shy and retiring. Do be careful about the quantity of horseradish as there is quite a lot in this dressing. Amend and reduce if you want a less strident flavour, or if your horseradish is particularly fresh and strong; you want it to make its presence