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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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For a refreshing salad try combining your favorite lettuce with nuts, fruit, and cheese. This recipe is a great starter for any meal (lunch or dinner) Ingredients:
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans |
1 bunch spinach, rinsed and torn into bite-size pieces |
1/2 cup dried cranberries or dried apricots or dried cherries |
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese or feta cheese |
2 roma tomatoes, chopped or grape tomatoes |
1 avocado - peeled, pitted and diced |
1/2 red onion, thinly sliced |
dressing |
2 tablespoons red raspberry jam (with seeds) |
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar |
1/3 cup walnut oil or olive oil |
freshly ground black pepper to taste |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Arrange walnuts (or any other nut) in a single layer on a baking sheet. Toast in oven for 5 minutes, or until nuts begin to brown.
3. In a large bowl, toss together the spinach, walnuts, cranberries, blue cheese, tomatoes, avocado, and red onion.
4. In a small bowl, whisk together jam, vinegar, walnut oil, pepper, and salt. Pour over the salad just before serving, and toss to coat.
5. * If you change the fruit, change the jam. Plus the vinegar. If you use apricot use rice wine vinegar.
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