Mexican Fiesta Salad W/ Cilantro Garlic Dressing
By: Marillyn Beard
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 9:47pm

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

1 Toss all the veggies together in a big bowl. Top it with pumpkin seeds, goat cheese and Cortido. 2 Garlic Cilantro Dressing 3 Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and stir strongly with a fork. Pour over the salad and enjoy!

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!!