Recipe - Blood Orange Salad With Vanilla Vinaigrette

6 Blood oranges
1/3 cup Reduced orange juice
One half teaspoon Pure vanilla extract; or
vanilla bean,
; split
1 teaspoon Sugar; more or less
2 tablespoon Lemon juice
Frisee
Salt
Olive oil
Pepper
Mint leaves
Fried shallots; (recipe
follows)

CRISPY SHALLOTS
One half teaspoon Cornstarch
One half teaspoon Flour
1 pn Salt
3 Bulbs shallots; cut or sliced up into
rounds
Peanut oil

Peel oranges and cut into 1/2inch slices. Reserve. Combine the orange
juice, vanilla, sugar and lemon juice to make the dressing.

Put dressing on plates. Arrange frisee on top of dressing and place
oranges on the

frisee. Sprinkle oranges with salt. Drizzle olive oil around edge of
oranges. Sprinkle with a bit of pepper. Arrange mint leaves on top and
sprinkle with crispy fried shallots.

Yield: 4