Kindred Farm Salad Dressings
Christine Bailey loves "picking dinner." And one of their primary crops is a type of lettuce called salanova. And of course with salad, you have to have a good dressing, so here is Kindred Farm's Go-T...
"The primary crop we grow on Kindred Farm year-round is a type of lettuce called salanova. When we harvest it, we remove the leaves from the core and mix it all together to create our Buttery Sweet Salad Mix. For this recipe, any fresh, fluffy lettuce will do. A spring mix would be perfect, or romaine mixed with butter lettuce. Anything but iceberg!
I never follow a recipe for salad. It's more of a formula for elements that, when put together, make for an interesting salad with a balance of textures and flavors." - Christine Bailey
Use this template as a "choose your own adventure" for salad making. Play around - you can't go wrong.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup spring lettuce mix per person
- choice of vegetables
- choice of creamy
- choice of crunchy
- choice of sweet
- choice of finishing touches
Preparation
vegetables (choose any or all)
cucumber, thinly sliced
carrots, peeled into long ribbons
cherry tomatoes, halved
celery, thinly sliced
bell or sweet peppers, sliced
garlic-stuffed green olives, halved
raw beets, grated
radishes, sliced
broccoli or cauliflower florets, finely chopped
creamy (choose 1)
crumbled goat cheese
crumbled feta cheese
shaved Parmesan
crunchy (choose 1 or 2)
sunflower seeds
honey-toasted cashews
toasted almonds
toasted pecans
toasted walnuts
sweet (choose 1)
chopped pitted dates
raisins
dried figs
dried apricots
finishing touches (choose 1 or 2)
nutritional yeast
hemp seeds
garlic powder
edible flowers
1. Add lettuce mix to large bowl. Add chosen ingredients by putting each element in a tight pile and then piling the next thing next to it, or by evenly placing each item over the surface of the lettuce. When finished, the entire top of the bowl should be covered, without any lettuce showing. When you toss with the dressing, it'll come together like magic.
2. Toss with desired dressing and serve.
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