Andes Spinach Salad
From ande16 16 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 6
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 shopping list
- 1 bunch spinach, rinsed and torn into bite-size pieces shopping list
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries or dried apricots or dried cherries shopping list
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese or feta cheese shopping list
- 2 roma tomatoes, chopped or grape tomatoes shopping list
- 1 avocado - peeled, pitted and diced shopping list
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced shopping list
- DRESSING shopping list
- 2 tablespoons red raspberry jam (with seeds) shopping list
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar shopping list
- 1/3 cup walnut oil or olive oil shopping list
- freshly ground black pepper to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- 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.
- In a large bowl, toss together the spinach, walnuts, cranberries, blue cheese, tomatoes, avocado, and red onion.
- In a small bowl, whisk together jam, vinegar, walnut oil, pepper, and salt. Pour over the salad just before serving, and toss to coat.
- * If you change the fruit, change the jam. Plus the vinegar. If you use apricot use rice wine vinegar.
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