Avocado & Greens Salad
Created by VegGirl on January 13, 2013
- Servings: 5
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 0m
- Recipe #7664
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup vinegar (white distilled)
- 1/3 cup oil (vegetable oil)
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (or coarse sea salt, or to taste)
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar (or to taste)
- FOR SALAD
- 1 head lettuce (butter lettuce or red leaf lettuce)
- 1 carrot, sliced (large carrot, peeled and thinly sliced)
- 1 cucumber (large cucumber, peeled, seeded and sliced)
- 2 tomatoes, chopped (ripe)
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced (small onion)
- 1 avocado, diced (large avocado, ripe, or 2 medium)
How to Make
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Step 1: In a plastic container that has a lid, add the vinegar, vegetable and olive oils, Dijon mustard, garlic, salt, black pepper and sugar. Cover the container with a lid and shake for 10 seconds until the vinaigrette is well emulsified. Alternatively, you can also whisk with a fork in a bowl.
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Step 2: Place the lettuce, carrots, cucumber, tomato and red onion in a large salad bowl. Pour a generous amount of the vinaigrette on top and toss. The salad should be coated with the vinaigrette but not swimming in it. Top with avocado slices, drizzle a bit more vinaigrette on top of and serve.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (437.8 g)
- Calories 452.7
- Total Fat - 42 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.8 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 923.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 18.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 8.5 g
- Sugars - 8 g
- Protein - 4.3 g
- Calcium - 92 mg
- Iron - 2.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 26 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg