Restaurant Recipes
Jazzmine's Blues Salad
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
Salad
- 2 tablespoons dried currants
- 4 cups mixed greens, or any other type of Lettuce
- 1/3 cup Dried Cherry Vinaigrette
- 1/4 cup blue cheese, crumbled
- 1/4 cup pecan halves, toasted
- 3 Roma tomatoes, quartered lengthwise
Dried Cherry Vinaigrette
- 1/3 cup dried cherries
- 1/3 cup rice vinegar (or any other mild flavored vinegar)
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon shallots, minced
- 1 cup olive oil (or any other salad oil)
Instructions
Salad
- Cover currants in hot water and let soak for 30 minutes, then drain.
- Toss greens with dressing, then transfer to serving bowl.
- Garnish salad with blue cheese, tomatoes, currants and pecans, then serve.
Dried Cherry Vinaigrette
- Cover cherries with hot water and let soak for 30 minutes, then drain.
- In a blender, combine with remaining ingredients EXCEPT oil. Blend ingredients together until smooth.
- With blender running, add olive oil in a thin stream.
Attribution
Chef Curt Carter - Jazzmine's - Minneapolis, Minnesota