MIXED SALAD GREENS WITH POMEGRANATE VINAIGRETTE

If you love salads as much as I do, you will want to make this salad. You can buy a whole pomegranate and shake out the seeds and squeeze the juice into you dressing, but I always have pomegranate juice in my refrigerator. You can buy pomegranate seeds in the produce department in your grocery store.

Mix salad greens, enough for 2 plates

1 clementine or orange, segmented (save the pulp for the juice)

¼ small red onion, thinly sliced

4 to 6 cherry tomatoes, cut in half

2 T pomegranate juice

2 T red wine vinegar                          

½ t Dijon mustard      

½ t honey

¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

¼ cup pomegranate seeds

¼ cup spiced candy pecans, optional

Wash and spin-dry the salad greens and place in a salad bowl.

Add the clementine segments, red onion slices, and cherry tomatoes. 

In a small bowl, squeeze in the juice from the clementine pulp and add the pomegranate juice.

Whisk in the red wine vinegar, Dijon, and honey.

Add the olive oil and whisk vigorously to combine.

Drizzle as much as you want over the salad and toss to combine.

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Divide between two salad plates,

Sprinkle on some pomegranate seeds and candy pecans, if desired.