Olive Garden is a well known American chain restaurant which serves Italian food. This is the recipe for their salad, which is our favourite salad.

Ingredients

• Romaine (Cos) lettuce,
• Ripe full-sized tomatoes (not cherry tomatoes),
• Black olives,
• Pickled peperoncini/peperoni (not to be confused with pepperoni),
• A red onion,
• Croutons,
• Parmesan cheese (usually finely grated, although I prefer it shaved).

Method

1. Chop the lettuce and tomatoes,
2. Peel the red onion, cut it in half, and then thinly slice it.
3. Cut the stalks from the peperoni and discard them, and optionally cut the peperoni into bite-sized pieces,
4. Combine all of the ingredients in a salad bowl,
5. Add the salad dressing (recipe here).