Showing posts with label Salad Dressings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salad Dressings. Show all posts

Friday, November 11, 2011

Cucumber Watermelon Wheat Berry Salad with Lime Basil Vinaigrette


Salad:

2 cups diced Cucumber
2 cups diced Watermelon
1/2 c Scallions, thinly sliced
3 cups Sprouted Wheat Berries

Toss all ingredients together in a bowl. Set aside.

Lime Basil Vinaigrette:

2 Limes, juice from
1/3 c Olive Oil, cold pressed
1 1/2 T raw Honey
2 T chopped Basil
Himalayan salt and pepper to taste

1. Whisk all ingredients except basil, salt and pepper together until thick.

2. Stir in basil. Salt and pepper to taste.

3. Pour over salad ingredients and toss.

Serves 4.

Strawberry Summer Salad


Strawberry Vinaigrette

8 medium Strawberries
1 C Olive Oil
1/4 c Agave
2 Lemons, juiced

Place all ingredients in Vitamix and blend until smooth and emulsified. Makes 1.2 Cups

Almond Brittle:

1 c Almonds, soaked for at least 6 hours
1.5 T Cinnamon
1.5 T Ginger
pinch of Cayenne
2-3 T Maple Syrup

Drain almonds and pat dry. Place all ingredients in food processor. Process until well ground but some larger chunks still exist. If you need more moisture to hold together, add the extra maple syrup. Flatten out on a teflex sheet. Dehydrate for 8 hours or until brittle is very dry. Handle carefully. Carefully break into pieces.

Salad:

4 C Greens (of choice)
Strawberry Vinaigrette
16 Strawberries - halved

Assembly:

Place salad in center of plate. Surround with sliced strawberries. Drizzle vinaigrette on salad, top with crumbled almond brittle. Serves 4.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Strawberry Mango Salad w/ Blueberry Vinaigrette Dressing

From www.Rawmazing.com

Strawberry Mango Salad

1 head romaine lettuce
1 cup strawberries, sliced
1 cup mango, diced
1 cup jicama, diced
1 avocado, diced
1 cup pumpkin seeds

1. Tear romaine and place on plate.
2. Mix together fruit and jicama. Place a handful on the lettuce bed.
3. Top with blueberry vinaigrette and pumpkin seeds

Blueberry Vinaigrette

1 cup blueberries
1 tablespoon agave nectar (or sweetener of your choice)
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil, cold pressed

1. Combine all ingredients in a blender.
2. Pour over top of salad.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Tomato Avocado Salad Dressing

• Juice two lemons
• Put lemon juice and pulp from one avocado in the blender and add enough water to allow it to mix, blend until smooth
• Add the juice of two tomatoes and the pulp of one (eat the other tomato pulp while you're waiting for the blender)
• Add "real salt" white pepper, and basil to taste
• Refrigerate

Herbal Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

• juice of one lime
• juice of one lemon
• 1/8 to 1/4 cup water
• 1/8 to 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
• one clove finely chopped garlic
• 1 tbsp finely chopped thyme, parsley, cilantro, and basil
• "real salt"* and white pepper to taste

Mix in a jar and keep in the refrigerator

* Real salt is a product made from fossilized unheated, untreated mineral salts from Utah. This is the only salt recommended by Dr. Norman Walker.

We didn't get a picture of the actual salad dressing but the salad we put it on looked so yummy... I decided to post a picture of that instead :-)