No, this salad doesn't have gumdrops in it, but it sure has lots of goodies in it! And it's super yummy, perhaps causing you to exclaim "goodie-goodie-gumdrops!!" while consuming it bowl after bowl (which is what I've been doing lately!) You can mix-and-match veggies as you please or to what's in season. Either way you toss it, this salad is a great staple to any recipe library and keeps for a few days, so lunch is all ready and dinner's side dish is waiting for you when you get home.
You will need*:
6 cups chopped dark greens (kale, chard, mustard, etc.)
1 1/2 cups cooked, cooled grains (lentils, wild rice, quinoa)
2-3 cups chopped assorted veggies (tomatoes, celery, carrots, onion, radish, fennel, broccoli)
1 lemon
1/3 cup well-stirred tahini
2 TB water
2 garlic cloves
3/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. sugar
To prepare salad, combine all the veggies in a LARGE bowl, set aside.
To make dressing**, combine the zest and all the juice of the lemon in a blender with the remaining ingredients***. Buzz a while till smooth and creamy. Toss with the veggies, and WA-LA! A wonderful year-round salad.
*In the salad I have pictured here (and if you're short on time and/or are close to a Trader Joe's), I combined TJ's chopped Southern Greens Blend, a pouch of TJ's pre-cooked Black Beluga Lentils, tomatoes, carrot, celery, and red onion.
Devonly, yours
**Recipe courtesy Epicurious.com
***You can also add a blop of honey if you want it a little sweeter, or some herbs or spices if you're feeling spicy
****My apologies for the funny spacing in the posts recently, I am being forced to post in IE as opposed to Firefox, and it makes all my spacing jankitty-like*****
*****Phew! That was a lot of footnotes!!
Devonly this looks heavenly.
ReplyDeleteHooray! I LOVE this salad so much and had forgotten about it for a bit. BUT it sounds like dinner!
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