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Winter Salad

Type: Meat, Vegetables
Courses: Salads
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

6 cups 1422mlSpinach - fresh, washed
2 cups 474mlRadicchio
4 oz 113gBacon - cooked, diced
1 oz 28gRed onion - chopped (medium)
8 oz 227gMushrooms - sliced
1/2 cup 118mlToasted pine nuts
  Creamy Dill/garlic Dressing
2   Garlic - finely chopped
1/4 cup 59mlButtermilk
3/4 cup 177mlLight sour cream
2 tablespoons 30mlLemon juice
2 tablespoons 30mlFresh dill - chopped
1   Sugar
  Salt, pepper - freshly ground

Recipe Instructions

The salad tastes fresh and summery although it is made with winter greens.

To toast pine nuts, place on a cookie sheet and bake at 375F for 5 minutes.

The dressing is low calorie and it will keep for a week.

Strip spinach from its ribs and tear into bite sized pieces.

Place in large salad bowl. Tear radicchio into bite sized pieces and add to spinach.

To make dressing, whisk together all ingredients in a bowl.

Taste for seasoning adding more lemon juice and dill to taste.

Use about 3/4 cup dressing for salad and reserve the remainder to use as a dip or to dress another salad.

Source:
Vegetarian Times, Mar 1994, p 39

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