Mexican Fiesta Salad W/ Cilantro Garlic Dressing

Category: Soups & Salads | Blog URL: http://just-making-noise.blogspot.com/2009/09/mexican-fiesta-salad-w-garlic-cilantro.html

This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.

Photo: Marillyn Beard

Ingredients

Red & green lettuce, chopped

Carrots, sliced

Red & yellow bell peppers, sliced

Fresh baby corn, broken into chunks

inch Handful cherry tomatoes, sliced half

Avocado, sliced and scooped out

Handful pumpkin seeds

Goat cheese

Cortido (Lacto-fermented Mexican Sauerkraut)... optional

Garlic Cilantro Dressing

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

3 tablespoons fresh lime juice

2 tablespoons cilantro, finely chopped

1/4 teaspoon dried or fresh oregano

10 garlic cloves, minced or finely chopped

Dash of chile powder

Pinch of sea salt

Pinch of stevia powder (optional)

Preparation

Toss all the veggies together in a big bowl. Top it with pumpkin seeds, goat cheese and Cortido.

Garlic Cilantro Dressing

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and stir strongly with a fork. Pour over the salad and enjoy!

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About

Garlic & cilantro are a match made in heaven! I don't remember when was the last time I used commercially made salad dressing on my salads. I have grown to really enjoy a simple mixture of olive oil and raw apple cider vinegar with a pinch of sea salt on most of my salads, but I do enjoy making homemade dressings to have some variety. Making your own dressings is very frugal and easy... all you need is a good arm and fork OR a good blender to mix all the ingredients in 5 minutes flat!

Here I got a fun Mexican-style salad and a wonderful garlicky dressing with a kick of cilantro. The baby corn adds a sweet crunch along with the pumpkin seeds. I usually like to add dried fruit of some sort with my salads, but I didn't really have anything on hand to go with this, but the avocado did a wonderful job of filling that void. Hmm... time to dig in!!