Recipe: Hearty Winter Salad

Hearty winter salad time. What makes a winter salad? To me it’s got apples, or a dense fruit, some hearty lettuce, and perhaps even some sweet potatoes. This salad doesn’t have any potatoes, yet it’s full of nuts and goodness. Let’s get cooking!

Ingredients

• a bundle of kale
• 1 head romaine lettuce
• a large cucumber
• an avocado
• a large honey crisp apple
• 3 tablespoons of sunflower seeds
• poppyseed dressing

First, wash and dry the kale and romaine lettuce. Then, cut the kale (stems and all) into thin pieces. Chop the romaine a little larger, into about 1 inch pieces. Next, make the dressing. If you’re going to be eating the salad right away, then coat the kale and romaine in the dressing and lay out nicely on a large serving platter.

For the cucumber, I like to deseed it – wash and cut out the core like in the broccoli and grape salad. Then dice and add to the salad. Next, slice open the avocado into nice fanning pieces – you’ll want about 3-4 sections and lay them out nicely around the edges of the dish. Wash and chop up the apple into pieces about the same size as the cucumber. Add to the salad in a sporadic way. Lastly, add the seeds.

Now, if you’re finding your salad is laying too flat (heavy and weighted down), just use your hands and lift it up a few times, you’ll give it some dimension. Then, eat up!

This salad is good by itself, or with a flat roasted chicken. It’s even good for lunch the next day!

The kale gives this salad the heartiness, along with the apple, yet the avocado adds some richness and the dressing provides just the right amount of sweetness.

Well, there you have it – a hearty winter salad just in time for winter! Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon. Happy eating!