Greens and Cranberry Holiday Dinner Side Salad

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This is a must at your holiday dinner table for Thanksgiving or Christmas, it's an easy salad to put together and is really good! You can make your own recipe for raspberry walnut vinaigrette, or use the one with this recipe, this recipe goes back years and is from Gourmet magazine and I make it quite often, it's really good, or you can purchase a good-quality dressing.

by Kittencalrecipezazz·published 2006-10-23

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Vegetable

Servings

(4–6)

Total time

10 min

prep 10 min

Calories / serving

520 kcal

Ingredients (11)

serves

1 (10 ounce) package mixed salad greens
1 (8 ounce) package dried sweetened cranberries (or to taste)
1/3 cup sunflower seeds or 1/3 cup toasted walnutswalnut
4 roma tomatoes, choppedtomato
1 avocado (peeled, pitted and diced)avocado
1 red onion (sliced) (optional)
1 teaspoon honey mustardhoney-mustard
2 tablespoons raspberry vinegarraspberry-vinegar
3 tablespoons walnut oilwalnut-oil
3 tablespoons olive oilolive-oil
1 tablespoon minced fresh tarragontarragon

Instructions (5 steps)

01In a large bowl toss together the salad greens, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds and tomatoes.
02Top with diced avocado and onion slices (if using) then drizzle with raspberry vinaigrette.
03For the dressing; in a bowl whisk together the mustard, vinegar; add in the oils in a slow steam whisking until the mixture is emulsified.

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