Recipe Category: Salad
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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons (28 g) butter
- 1/2 cup (60 g) chopped walnuts
- 10 cups (200 g) loosely packed assorted greens (romaine, red leaf lettuce, and fresh spinach)
- 1/4 sweet red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) olive oil
- 2 teaspoons wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon spicy brown or Dijon mustard
- -to taste- salt
- -to taste- pepper
- 1/2 ripe pear, chopped
- 40 g crumbled blue cheese
Method
- Melt the butter in a small, heavy skillet over medium heat
- Add the walnuts and let them toast in the butter, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes
- While the walnuts are toasting-and make sure you keep an eye on them and don’t burn them-wash and dry your greens and put them in salad bowl with the onion
- Toss with the oil first
- Then combine the vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper and add that to the salad bowl
- Toss until everything is well covered
- Top the salad with the pear, the warm toasted walnuts, and the crumbled blue cheese; serve
Makes 4 generous servings
- Each with 13 grams of carbohydrates and 6 grams of fiber, for a total of 7 grams of usable carbs and 10 grams of protein
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