Invisible Eiffel Salad
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TypeSalad
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 29, 2026
The Eiffel Tower built from asparagus, women invisible as radish: a fresh salad with a sharp aftertaste.
A salad built as an Eiffel Tower from green asparagus and roasted chicken, with radish slices as the 'disappeared' women around the base. Outwardly neat and fresh, but the vinaigrette delivers a sharp sting: scandal on a plate.
Ingredients
- 500 g green asparagus
- 2 little gem lettuces
- 2 cooked chicken breasts (about 350 g total)
- 8 radishes
- 1 red onion
- 2 tbsp capers
- 100 g cherry tomatoes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp honey
- salt and pepper
Method
- Wash the asparagus and trim off the woody ends. Boil for 3 minutes in salted water and cool quickly.
- Cut the chicken breasts into long, thin strips.
- Quarter the little gem lettuces and spread over a large platter as a base.
- Slice the radishes thinly. Halve the cherry tomatoes. Cut the red onion into thin rings.
- Arrange the asparagus in three criss-cross layers to form an Eiffel Tower silhouette on the lettuce bed.
- Lean the chicken strips diagonally against the asparagus as tower supports.
- Arrange the radish slices in a ring around the base of the tower: visible, but not in the structure itself.
- Scatter the capers, tomatoes, and onion rings around.
- Whisk a vinaigrette from olive oil, vinegar, mustard, honey, salt, and pepper. Drizzle over the salad.
Serving notes
- Serve with baguette for a Parisian touch.
- Place the salad in the center of the table so everyone can admire the 'tower' before serving.