Salads are always a good choice when eating out or at home. It is an easy way to incorporate your daily 5 portions of fruit and vegetables. It is important to keep the salads interesting by adding fresh herbs, combining different types of lettuce with various fruits and vegetables.
Salad dressings must be light and not laden with all the bad oils and cream. I make my dressings interesting by using different vinegars and as little oil as possible. If I do use oil, I opt for avocado, olive or canola oils. For today's salad, I added some Goat's cheese which is not the healthiest choice, but I added only 2 thin slices and I used very little oil in my dressing.
Nectarine and Goat's Cheese Salad.
Ingredients (1 serving)
1 nectarine - pipped and sliced
a handful of baby lettuce leaves
a few young basil leaves
2 thin slices of goat's cheese
Simply pile your lettuce leaves in the middle of the plate, circle with the sliced peach, top with the goat's cheese and pour over the dressing just before serving.
2 tsp lavender vinegar
1 tsp EVO
a pinch of xilotol
chopped mint.
Stir all ingredients together and pour over salad.
8 comments:
Mmm, this looks heavenly! I love salads with nectarines and some sort of cheese - I do a killer nectarine, prosciutto and feta starter! I was actually thinking of making it this weekend - not seasonal, but that's what happens when you send hubby grocery shopping with "tangerines" on the list and he decides to come back with "nectarines" - because obviously if they sound the same they must be the same, right?? Aarrrgh!
Once you start making your own dressings, it's hard to go back to store-bought.
This looks fabulous, but I'm fond of nectarines and goat cheese. I live close to Georgia so I bet I could substitute juicy Georgia peaches when they come in season soon. Your presentation is spectacular.
I wish I could find the lavender vinegar and I have no idea what it tastes like. Do you think you could make it yourself? I have French lavender growing in my herb garden. If I put a stalk of the lavender in vinegar, what kind of vinegar would you use to achieve the correct results?
You have such interesting ingredients. I'm also not familiar with xilotol.
Sam
You surely make salads interesting. I would have never thought of adding nectarines to a salad, What is xylitol ??
This salad is jumping right out of the screen. I want summer, fresh fruit now!
This is such a beautiful salad. I would enjoy this.
This looks so good! Light, sweet and the velvety tang of the goat cheese, a great layer of flavors... I work with Chavrie (the pyramid shaped goat cheese, ever have it??) and I will definetly put this on my list of yummy recipes to try for Spring! Thanks, Corrinne
Wow! That looks like a delicious salad. My husband and I will be trying this very soon. We had our own dinner of goat cheese and nectarines recently that also was tasty.
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