MANDARIN ORANGE SALAD

Ingredients

• Orange Vinaigrette
• 2 tablespoons champagne vinegar white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• ¼ cup orange juice
• 1 tablespoon orange zest
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• ⅓ cup more virgin olive oil
• Kosher salt and clean floor black pepper to taste
• Salad Ingredients
• 10 oz. spring mix
• 6 mandarin oranges segmented
• ¾ cup toasted walnuts
• ½ cup dried cranberries
• ⅓ cup crumbled feta cheese
• ¼ cup thinly sliced purple onion

Instructions

Combine the champagne vinegar, orange juice, orange zest, honey, Dijon mustard, and olive oil in a mason jar. Shake vigorously and season with kosher salt and clean floor black pepper to taste.
Add the spring greens, mandarin orange segments, toasted walnuts, dried cranberries, crumbled feta, and purple onion to a massive bowl. Drizzle with the dressing and toss to coat. For exceptional results, serve promptly.

Notes

Spring vegetables are a combination of different toddler vegetables and infant lettuce. The younger vegetables blanketed in the combine ought to be arugula, inexperienced chard, kale, pink chard, child spinach, endive, or radicchio. Some of the child lettuces protected would possibly be inexperienced oak leaf, purple leaf, crimson oak, tango free leaf, or purple or inexperienced romaine lettuce.
Mix the dressing up to three days in enhance and refrigerate. Remove from the fridge an hour earlier than getting ready the salad.
Without a doubt, home made salad dressing tastes lots higher than bottled salad dressing each time.
Substitute 1 (15-ounce) can of mandarin oranges drained for the sparkling mandarin oranges.
Dried cherries are a tasty replacement for dried cranberries.
Other nuts to work with encompass pecans, almonds, and pine nuts. Or attempt sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds.
To preserve it fresh, buy a small block of feta and fall apart it yourself. Goat cheese, Parmesan, and cotija cheese are all exact substitutions.
Drizzle the dressing and toss to coat proper earlier than serving.
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge however preserve in idea that the vegetables will wilt quickly.

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