Christmas salad with mandarins and nuts
Ingredients
- 75 grams baby spinach
- 75 grams valerian
- 2 clean mandarins
- 20 grams cranberries
- 5 grams pine cone
- 70 grams Danish blue cheese (Danablu)
- zest of a mandarin
- 1 teaspoon of phytin
- 1 mandarin (its juice)
- 50 grams olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- 2 tablespoons of wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of mustard
- salt (optional)
- pepper (optional)
Instructions
- In a small frying pan, at medium to high heat, add phytin and once it has melted, add the pine cone and the nuts and toast them slightly, for half a minute, just enough so you can extract their oils and aromas. Then remove them and place them on an absorbent paper.
- Add all the dressing’s ingredients in the blender and mix for a few seconds, until they have been homogenized.
- In a bowl add the spinach, the valerian, add half of the nuts, a few slices of the mandarins and about 4-5 tablespoons of the dressing and mix gently.
- Place the salad in a deep utensil of your liking, gently. Next, add on top of it the rest of the mandarins, nuts, pine cone, cranberries and the slices of the Danish blue cheese.
- Lastly, add the zest of a mandarin, pepper and a bit of sea salt.
Σημειώσεις
- You can also use Greek gruyére, but the Danish blue cheese offers a unique taste.
- If you can’t find valerian, use baby rocket instead to make the salad.
- You can use oranges, instead of mandarins.
- Trust me, the phytin will make a huge impact on the nuts.
- You can skip the part where you toast the nuts, but you will have less richness of the salad’s flavor.
salad, Christmas, mandarins, nuts